The Press: M'sieu le Depute

Le Petit Parisien (1,800,000 daily circulation, nearly three times greater than any American newspaper) is the most widely read journal in France. It is printed in 15 separate editions. The first edition comes off the press at 5.30 a. m. of the day before and is shot to the provinces furthest North. The last edition leaves the machines at 6 a. m. for the grand boulevards.

Paris and vicinity within 60 miles absorb half the circulation, so that even as a metropolitan paper it is twice the size of an American daily. Within this...

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