Le Parisien (lit. 'The Parisian') is a French newspaper that covers international and national news as well as local news from the Paris area. It has been a subsidiary of Bernard Arnault's LVMH since 2015. The name was changed to the current one in 1986. A national edition exists, called Aujourd'hui en France (pronounced [oʒuʁdɥi ɑ̃ fʁɑ̃s]; lit. 'Today in France'). LVMH acquired the paper from Éditions Philippe Amaury in 2015. Le Parisien had a circulation near to one million copies in the early 1970s. The paper reached a circulation of 659,200 copies on 24 April 1995, the day after the first round of the presidential election. In the period of 1995–1996 the paper had a circulation of 451,159 copies. More information...
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