Le Parisien

Le Parisien, initially Le Parisien libéré until 1986, is a daily French newspaper founded in 1944 by Émilien Amaury, covering international and national news as well as local new from Paris and its surrounding regions. With nine departmental editions, Le Parisien is the most prominent regional newspaper across the Île-de-France and Oise areas. In 1994 it launched a national edition under the title Aujourd'hui en France. As of 2015, it is owned by billionaire Bernard Arnault's LVMH group under the subsidiary umbrella Les Echos-Le-Parisien Group. Since the LVMH takeover, Le Parisien has run at a deficit on average of 20 million euros per year. As with other French newspapers, Le Parisien receives government subsidies through The Strategic Fund for the Development of the Press and the Aide à la Diffusion. In 2024, Le Parisien was given over 1.7 million euros in subsidies for nearly 60 million copies sold, equating to approximately 2.9 Euro cents per copy; additionally its national edition Aujourd’hui en France, received over 12 million euros in 2024 for a circulation of just under 22 million copies, or approximately 56.24 euro cents per copy sold.