Le Petit Parisien – 7 Mai, 1899 Supplement Litteraire Illustre [with frontispiece: “DOGS OF WAR OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN THE PHILIPPINES]

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paper age-toned; pp. 145-152, with Phil-American War frontispiece. Published in Paris; no. 535 – Philippine-American War Frontispiece and Rive .. – Drama in Church (Assassination during the first Holy Communion). 

Le Petit Parisien is a former French newspaper which existed from 1876 to 1944 and was one of the main newspapers under the Third Republic. On the eve of WW I, it was one of the 4 largest French dailies. It was founded by Louis Andrieux, radical deputy and public prosecutor, on October 15, 1876 with Jules Roche, a former colleague of Andrieu at the bar, as editor-in-chief. Le Petit Parisien at its beginnings was rather anticlerical and radical leftist, quickly becoming popular. In 1884, Jean Dupuy became the owner. From then on for several decades, the Dupuy family played, through Le Petit Parisien, an important political role in France. The newspaper, under his leadership and with a more moderate political positioning, reached a very large circulation with a million copies sold across France from 1900, then more than two million at the end of World War I, then the highest circulation in the world. In 1944, with the Liberation, the newspaper, transformed during the Occupation by the German military government into a propaganda organ, was suspended and Pierre Dupuy, who succeeded his father to the direction of the newspaper, was accused of collaboration [later acquitted). Le Petit Parisien however did not recover and its place was taken by the “Parisian”.