Le Monde

French daily newspaper founded in 1944

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Le Monde is a major French daily newspaper that has been published since 1944. It is widely regarded as one of France's most important news sources and carries significant influence in French public discourse and politics.

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Official website: scholar.lib.vt.edu/InterNews/LeMonde
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inception: 1944-12-18
Commons category: Le Monde
title: Le Monde
publication interval: 1
web feed URL: www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml
periodical archive URL: www.lemonde.fr/archives-du-monde
start time: 1944-12-18
social media followers: 1960000
units sold: 449557
shortened URL formatter: lemnde.fr/$1

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Le Monde ( French: [l(ə) mɔ̃d]; lit. 'The World') is a French newspaper founded in 1944 by Hubert Beuve-Méry. It is the most widely read paid national daily newspaper in France, with 2.44 million readers in 2021, and the most widely circulated, with around 500,000 subscribers, including 414,000 digital subscribers and 87,000 print subscribers.

It presents itself as a "newspaper of record". Former editor Éric Fottorino preferred not to describe the newspaper as a "newspaper of record", stating instead that it was "not just any newspaper", but rather one that "claims to become the reference, an alloy of competence and editorial independence built over several decades". It is nevertheless widely regarded as such, including internationally.