Research: Newspapers: International: France

Le Monde

Le Figaro

L'Express

out of 180 countries
in the world rankings in 20172017 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX RANK

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(Base list of newspapers from BBC News Country Profiles)

Title (Home URL)	PressReader (last 3 mos.)	Nexis Uni	Factiva	Int'l Newsstream	Archives
Le Monde - respected national daily, considered to be France's newspaper of record	yes	1999+Full Text, Full Coverage	Full Text, Full Coverage	4/6/2011+	Microfilm AN20 .F44 1964 - 2 months ago (Identify articles through Les archives du Monde 1944+)
Liberation - national daily, founded in 1973 by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, centre-left leaning	yes	x	Full Text, Full Coverage	x	1995+
Le Figaro - national daily, centre-right leaning	yes	1997+	Full Text, Full Coverage	x	(1826–1942) (Gallica) Le Figaro, supplément littéraire du dimanche (1876–1929) (Gallica)
Ouest France - Rennes-based; France's best-selling daily	yes	4/20/2006+	Full Text, Selected Coverage	x	x
L'Express - news weekly	yes	x	x	x	1993+
Le Point - news weekly	yes	x	x	x	x
		approx. 70 titles	approx.131 titles

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Electronic archives of select French newspapers and periodicals (late 18th century to mid-20th century) at Gallica's Presse quotidienne (http://gallica.bnf.fr/html/und/presse-et-revues/les-principaux-quotidiens) Includes, among others:

Newspaper content available through the European Library:

Le Journal des Débats politiques et littéraires; Le Siècle; Le Constitutionnel; La Presse; Le Figaro; Le Temps; Le Petit Journal; Le Petit Parisien; Le Gaulois; Le Matin; L'Intransigeant; La Croix; L'écho de Paris; L'Univers; Ouest Eclair (Éd. de Rennes); L'Action Française; L'Humanité; Ouest Eclair (Éd. de Caen); Le Petit Journal illustré Supplément du dimanche