Le Parisien (pronounced [lə paʁizjɛ̃]; lit. 'The Parisian') is a French daily newspaper covering both international and national news, and local news of Paris and its suburbs. Since 2015, Le Parisien has been owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, better known as LVMH, belonging to French billionaire Bernard Arnault.^[2]

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Le Parisien

Front pages of Le Parisien (regional) and Aujourd'hui en France (national) on 12 September 2016. While both editions carry the same main story, several side headlines are different.
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	LVMH
Founded	1944; 80 years ago (1944)
Political alignment	Neutral[1]
Language	French
Headquarters	15th arrondissement of Paris
Circulation	180,854 (as of 2020)
ISSN	0767-3558
Website	www.leparisien.fr

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The paper was established as Le Parisien libéré (pronounced [lə paʁizjɛ̃ libeʁe]; lit. 'The Freed Parisian') by Émilien Amaury in 1944,^[3][4] and was published for the first time on 22 August 1944. The paper was originally launched as the organ of the French underground during the German occupation of France in World War II.^[4]

The name was changed to the current one in 1986.^[3] 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.^[5]

Le Parisien had a circulation near to one million copies in the early 1970s.^[6] The paper reached a circulation of 659,200 copies on 24 April 1995, the day after the first round of the presidential election.^[3] In the period of 1995–1996 the paper had a circulation of 451,159 copies.^[7]

The combined circulation of Le Parisien was 485,000 copies in 2001.^[8] The paper had a circulation of 147,143 copies and a combined circulation of 360,505 copies in 2002.^[9] It was the second largest regional newspaper in France with a combined circulation of 530,000 copies in 2008,^[10] behind Ouest-France, which had a circulation of about 800,000 copies. The circulation of Le Parisien was 229,638 copies in 2014.^[11] The circulation of Le Parisien was 264,952 copies in 2020.^[12]