Le Figaro
Le Figaro is one of France's oldest and most prominent daily newspapers, published in Paris. It is widely regarded as conservative and centre-right in editorial orientation, with a strong following among centre-right and business readers. The paper covers national and international politics, economics, and culture, and maintains one of France's most visited news websites.
Le Figaro at a glance
- Country
- France
- Region
- Western Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Right-leaning
- Founded
- 1826
- Owner
- Groupe Dassault
- Published from
- Paris
- Website
- lefigaro.fr ↗
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How Crosswire groups Le Figaro
Crosswire groups Le Figaro as Right-leaning for comparisons within France's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In France, Libération and Mediapart are listed as Left-leaning, while Le Monde and Le Parisien are listed as Centrist — so you can open Le Figaro beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Le Figaro sits in France's press
Le Figaro was founded in 1826, is published from Paris and is owned by Groupe Dassault. It is one of 11 outlets tracked in France, and one of 5 daily newspapers among them — the others being Le Monde, Libération, Le Parisien and 20 Minutes. By outlets tracked, France ranks third of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 109 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Le Figaro outside France, starting with Western Europe, are NRC (Netherlands), La Libre (Belgium), Der Standard (Austria) and NZZ (Switzerland). Opening one of them beside Le Figaro is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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