Le Parisien (lit. 'The Parisian') is a French newspaper that covers international and national news as well as local news from the Paris area. It has been a subsidiary of Bernard Arnault's LVMH since 2015.[2]
History and profile
The paper was established as Le Parisien libéré (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]