Charles-Louis Havas

Charles-Louis Havas , born with Rouen the July 5th 1783 and dead the May 21st 1858 with Bougival, is a Journaliste French, founder of the arranges Havas.

Former banker become translator, Charles Havas created the concept of news agency. Its occupation of translator of information come from abroad for the capable national press having put it to realize of the interest growing of the French newspapers for the international topicalities, it thus decides to create, in 1825, its own company which will get for the press news chosen in the foreign newspapers and translated by its care. It becomes in little time an interlocutor impossible to circumvent. In 1835, it creates, when it starts to provide dispatches of France to the foreign countries, the Agence Havas which will become thereafter the Agence France-Press.

Charles Havas is also a precursor as regards publicity. The success of its company enabled him to conquer the press of province thanks to the installation of a fascinating advertizing service charges totality with it with the process of publication of the advertisements on behalf of the publication.

The founder of the agency Reuters, Paul Julius Reuter, had previously worked for Charles-Louis Havas before founding, in October 1851, his own agency in City with London.

References

Pierre Frédérix, One Century of hunting for the news: agency of Havas information at the Agency France-press (1835-1957) , Paris, Flammarion, 1959
Antoine Lefébure, Havas: mysteries of the capacity , Paris, Grasset, 1992 ISBN 9782246419914

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