Le Petit Journal

Le Petit Journal is a republican and conservative Parisian daily newspaper, founded by Moïse Polydore Millaud and published from 1863 to 1944. Until the First World War, it was one of the four largest French dailies, along with Le Petit Parisien, Le Matin, and Le Journal. Its circulation reached one million copies in 1890. Contributors to Le Petit Journal in its early days included: Lamartine, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Assolant, Eugène Chavette, Charles Monselet, and later Albert Londres, René Hachette, Raymond Patenôtre, Saint-Paulien, Paul-Émile Victor, Daniel-Rops, Roger Vercel, Stephen Pichon, and Maxence Van der Meersch.