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France Soir is a Quotidien general practitioner French created in 1944.

This newspaper was placed in file for bankruptcy with the end of the year 2005 and during the first quarter 2006. At the beginning of the month of February 2006, it was illustrated by publishing the series of caricatures of Mahomet which had been worth with the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten a sharp disapproval of the Muslim world. This action started again the polemic and involved the dismissal of the director of the publication Jacques Lefranc.

History

The time of Pierre Lazareff

This newspaper was created in November 1944 by Robert Salmon and Philippe Viannay, two old resistant. Pierre Lazareff, emblematic figure of the press, will become the historical director about it. It is him which had obtained the title on the ruins of Défense of France, and it will succeed in attracting beautiful signatures, like Joseph Kessel, Lucien Bodard, Henri de Turenne, Henri Amouroux, Philippe Labro, Paul Gordeaux… In his offices located at the time to the “100, Rue Réaumur in Paris”, surrounded by six secretaries, “Pierrot the straps” managed with the rod a drafting of more than 400 people.

In 1949, the daily newspaper is then repurchased by the Librairie Hatchet, and Pierre Lazareff is named Gérant and Managing director of the security company (FEP) and the newspaper him even. The newspaper becomes very prosperous during the Années 1950, reaching in 1961, 1 115 700 sold specimens on average each day; a stringcourse with the one of the newspaper announces “ the only daily newspaper selling more than one million specimens ”. Its phenomenal success is due to a simple but effective editorial policy: headlines hookers, photographs, scoops, many various facts, vertical cartoons famous loves Crime doesn't pay attractive price and of many editions throughout the day and progressively reactualized topicality. The drafting turns almost 24 hours a day, and twenty-five chauffeur-driven cars are available at any moment to bring the journalists on the ground, of which some have even open table at Maxim' S.

France Soir is then a reference in the French media landscape and the Sunday lunches, given by Pierre Lazareff, in the property which it rents in the Yvelines become a place of appointment sought by the political directors and the captains of industry. Absorption in the middle of the Years 1960 of Paris-Press and its team prevents it from rocking in a Populisme unbounded. November 9th, 1970, France Soir obtains its more important diffusion, with 2 264 000 specimens, for the advertisement of died of the General de Gaulle.

End of the golden age

The death of Pierre Lazareff, in 1972, mark end of the golden age of the daily newspaper. The radios and television delivered already a terrible competition to him, in particular Europe 1 with its flashes of information every hour, and on April 8th, 1969, the stringcourse “ million specimens ” had already been removed. But, from now on, they are the hesitations of choices of the leading line which finally will make him the most evil, between a popular newspaper with Anglo-Saxon or a newspaper competitor general practitioner of the daily newspaper Parisian the .

In 1976, Hachette resells the title, then diffused with 600 000 specimens per day, with the group Press Alliance of Paul Winckler, which reassigns at once of it half with Robert Harrowing, before yielding total control of it to him. On the 200 journalists, 80 make play the clause of conscience. Recurrent strikes make fall the assistantship, but the diffusion is always around 400 000 specimens in 1983.

In 1998, lance an ambitious industrial sphere, including/understanding the passage to the format tabloïd, a reduction of the price of 22%, passing 5 francs French with 3,90, a new printing works with a drafting installed with Aubervilliers.

Socpresse of Harrowing Robert sells with Georges Ghosn the overdrawn title in 1999. In June 2001 a reorganization leads to the suppression of 60 employment. Between 2002 and 2003, Philippe Bouvard has a new leading project, which on television makes the good share and with the sport, it is the project France Soir + , but the new formula does not obtain discounted success and Philippe Bouvard leaves the daily newspaper. He is replaced by André Bercoff which becomes the eleventh director of the drafting since 1982, and in October 2004 the daily newspaper is sold with Raymond Lakah.

The difficult recovery

Press Aliance, had by Poligrafici with height of 30 % and Ramy Lakah with 70 %, was put in suspension of payment Thursday October 27th 2005, since August, the newspaper did not appear more in the south of France, following a dispute with Riccobono printing works. Overdrawn with height of 6 French franc million, the bankruptcy court of Bobigny decided on Monday, October 31, 2005 of the setting in rectification of the company Presse Alliance, the security company of the daily newspaper, for one six months period. This decision allowed the continuation of the activity and gave time to the receivers to find a solution of continuity, but the diffison of the daily newspaper fell to 45.000 specimens.

The company Presse Alliance is property with 70% of the group Montaigne Close Limited of which managing it is Raymond Lakah. Five transferees were in string for the revival of France Soir . The deadline of deposit of the files of resumption of the title, fixed by the court at January 12th, 2006, was several times pushed back.

March 14th, 2006, the business man Arcadi Gaydamak announces a revival project of the title via his company Moscow News. This project obtains the support of SNJ.

April 12th, 2006, it is the revival project of the journalist Olivier Rey and the business man Jean-Pierre Brunois which is chosen by the Bankruptcy court of Lille, causing in the tread a strike of the journalists of France Soir decided and renewed with quasi a unanimity. They dispute the little of credibility of the editorial project of the designated transferee, as well as the extent and the nature of the social plan envisaged. That Ci, validated by the bankruptcy court on the basis of project of the transferee, prevents any application of the rules of the social right, with an aim of making pay by the public funds of guarantee the allowances of paid oldest. The employee representatives make call of the judgment of the bankruptcy court. The employees of France Soir obtain the support of the whole of the trade-union organizations as well as many personalities of the media, civil society and spectacle, and in particular of the little girl of Pierre Lazareff, Katherine Icardi-Lazareff who denounces " the eradication of whole services of the newspaper, the policy, culture, the bases of what was the newspaper of my large-père".

This strike and the call to the memory of Pierre Lazareff were denounced like an operation, qualified the suicidal one, by François Lazareff, nephew of Pierre, journalist and equestrian newspaper editor in the great west of France. He recalled that one of the maxims of Pierre Lazareff was The first quality of a journalist is to be read and that the journalists of France Soir very made not the being.

Republication and current location

On Wednesday, June 7, 2006, France Soir reappears after more than one month and half of stop of diffusion. The one of the “n°1 of new France Soir”, drawn with 150.000 specimens, was made up of Mariah Carey, Guy Roux and of a title on the road safety.

The first number of the new edition of France Soir wanted to be in the spirit of the Tabloïd S English (see Sun ), a formula which meets little success up to now in France. In November 2006, the Canard Enchaîné gave a report on a diffusion bordering 30.000 specimens. In its number of November 10th, 2006, another publicaton, " The 4 truths hebdo" indicate that " with sales with less than 30.000 specimens, " Soir" France; do not go up the slope, in spite of its resumption in hand, last June, by the trio Jean-Pierre Brunois/François Mattei/Christiane Vulvert".

The daily newspaper, pertaining from now on to Jean-Pierre Brunois, business man, had as director of the drafting François Mattei. It would currently employ forty employees.

Among the signatures of the newspaper, one finds Dominique Jamet, which holds a daily scratch pad, Gerard Carreyrou which signs a political chronicle each Tuesday, Jean-Marc Morandini and Isabelle Morini-Bosc, chroniclers for the television pages.

In January 2007, Henri Lauret, chronicler with France Info, former economic journalist, was appointed director of France Soir. Gerard Carreyrou and Dominique Jamet were appointed leading advisers. February 15th, 2007, Dominique Jamet, after having been sub-editor of 1961 to 1963, became director of the drafting of the daily newspaper until April 28th, 2007, date on which he resigned of his station because of a dissension with the leading line of the daily newspaper. Its nomination had been mainly at the origin of the departure of Jean-Pierre Thiollet.

France Soir has a OJD of 24.000 specimens for the 1st six-month period 2007, that is to say a progression of more than 14% compared to the 2nd six-month period 2006, date of the recovery. Study EPIC from 7/1/06 to 6/30/07 allots nearly 200.000 daily readers to the newspaper.

On the technical plan, France Soir is a national daily newspaper published 6 days per week (Monday to Saturday). A strong place is made with the data processing general. The great specificity of France Soir is the Courses book. This daily book of 8 pages is printed on yellow paper. It is inserted into the center of the newspaper. Its classification is in Roman numerals (I with VIII, XII saturdays) whereas the principal book is numbered in Arab numerals. France Soir prints with CIPP with Saint-Denis. It is also printed in five other printing works distributed on the French territory.

The newspaper prints several tens of thousands of specimens in 3 editions:

- an edition buckled with 20:30 (Nantes Nancy),
- an intermediate edition (for the distant sites of impression) towards 21:45
- and the “CTD” with 23:00.

The average pagination is of 40 pages tabloïd. The newspaper is carried out by a team of forty people installed with Paris in the 17 {{E}} district. According to the management of the firm, the development objectives were validated after new studies Marketing.

The France Soir mark remains known, primarily among the oldest people. According to the management of the firm, " there would be in France a broad place for a popular newspaper of qualité". The financial balance of the newspaper whose wage bill and the standing fixed overheads would have been reduced considerably, would be at the neighborhoods of 40.000 sold specimens (for a diffusion of 90.000 specimens).

In 2006, the direction of the company had posted its intention to set up a " true policy of diffusion and parution" , " with the acquisition of a frequency of television on TNT and a radio frequency organized in the same leading spirit as the journal" , in front of " to still reinforce the development of France Soir in a newspaper-television-radio-internet" interactivity;.

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