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Le Figaro

🇫🇷FR · newspaper · independent · lefigaro.fr
Spectrum
Left Centre-left Centre Centre-right Right State / loyalist
An estimate, not a score.
Founded1826-01-15 — first issue of Le Figaro, launched as a satirical weekly by Maurice Alhoy and Étienne Arago (became a daily in 1866) · source
Headquarters23-25 rue de Provence, 75009 Paris, France · source
FundingPrivately held company (SAS); revenue comes from circulation, subscriptions and advertising. Parent holding Groupe Figaro reported group revenue of about €570 million (2022 figures cited on Wikipedia). No state ownership or state funding identified in sources checked.
ReachPrint circulation reported at approximately 389,358 copies in 2025, described as France's second-largest national daily newspaper by circulation.
In its own wordsDescribes itself as: "Groupe Figaro's own corporate site states: 'Nous défendons la liberté : celle de penser, de s'exprimer sans détour, d'accueillir et de confronter des opinions divergentes' (We defend freedom: of thought, of speaking directly, of welcoming and confronting differing opinions), and describes the group as founded in 1826."
Identity Wikipedia
Bias we have measured in their reporting
Asserted, not attributed
the capture of the strait and a "lightning offensive" are stated flat, with no source and no date — in 1 article
Asserted vs attributed
The mayor's account and his opponents' charge are both attributed. — in 1 article
Asserted vs attributed
The capture of the strait is stated flat, as settled background to a different story, with no source and no date for the claim. — in 1 article
Attacker identified by
nationality in the headline — in 1 article
From 7685 articles we hold, with the quote behind every tag.
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting: 1 false6 misleading13 disputed43 unverified33 true
A verdict is on the sentence we checked, not on the outlet. An outlet that files a lot is checked a lot.

Ownership

HolderTypeStakeControlInstrumentSinceSource
Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault (GIMD) / Dassault family holding company not disclosed yesequity — link
Groupe Figaro company not disclosed yesequity — link
Serge Dassault person 80% yesequity — link

Percentages appear only where a source states them. "Not disclosed" means nobody published a number, not that we did not look.

Editorial control

Directeur des Rédactions (Editor-in-Chief / Director of Editorial Operations), L
Named as director of editorial operations on Le Figaro's own legal-notices page; has headed the paper's newsroom since July 2012, previously editing Le Figaro Magazine and Valeurs actuelles.
Président (Chairman), Groupe Figaro SAS
Chief executive of Dassault Aviation and, since January 2025, of the Dassault Group holding; listed as chairman of Groupe Figaro SAS in the French national company register.
Directeur de la Publication (Publisher), Société du Figaro; Directeur Général (C
Chief executive of Groupe Figaro since 2011 and named publisher of Le Figaro on the paper's own legal-notices page; earlier held finance and executive roles at L'Express and the Lagardère group.

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Journalist / columnist, Le Figaro
Journalist and essayist with an author page at Le Figaro; joined the paper in 2014 after writing for Causeur, and has since also written for Limite, BFM TV and CNews.
Journalist/editor, Le Figaro (employed since 1994); has held reporter and editor
Journalist at Le Figaro since 1994, with reporter and editor roles including at Le Figaro Magazine; also works with RTL and Histoire TV.
Columnist, Le Figaro
Quebec-based sociologist, columnist and university lecturer who writes for Le Figaro alongside Canadian and other outlets (CNews, Journal de Montréal, La Presse, Le Devoir).
Columnist (éditorialiste), Le Figaro
Jurist and economist who is a columnist for the daily Le Figaro and the weekly Le Point; formerly a referendary advisor at the Cour des comptes.
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