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6 unusual facts about Le Figaro


Cape Calmette

It was named by Charcot for Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro, who furnished the French Antarctic Expedition with copies of this newspaper for the two years preceding the expedition.

Henriette Caillaux

At a time when newspapers took political sides, the editor of the Le Figaro newspaper, Gaston Calmette, had been a severe critic.

Jean-Philippe Collard

"He has all the right qualities which make him a musician of the highest order; his technique, his sensibility are like the flower of virtuosity" -- Le Figaro, February, 1973.

Nicolas Princen

During his studies, he did internships as a reporter to the editorial board of Le Figaro and as project manager at Euro RSCG New-York.

Robert Redeker

On September 19, 2006, a few days before the Islamic month of Ramadan, he wrote an opinion piece for Le Figaro, a French secular and conservative newspaper, which quickly removed the article from its public database.

Zhou Weihui

She has presented her work in a large number of Western publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, CNN, USA Today, the BBC, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Stern, Welt am Sonntag, Asahi Shimbun, NHK, Yomiuri Shimbun, Le Monde, ND Le Figaro.


Arindam Mukherjee

Arindam’s works have so far been published in Private Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, Stern, New Statesman, Der Spiegel, Liberation, Devolkskrant, Le Figaro and several other major publications around the globe.

CELSA Paris

CELSA's alumni work for highly regarded French media institutions, such as TF1, France 2, France 3, Canal Plus, France 24, Arte (TV); Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération (print) or Radio France Internationale, RTL, Europe 1 (radio)...

Christophe Brunnquell

The popularity of Purple helped boosting his own career, and since then he has been working with art direction and design consultancy for, among others, Louis Vuitton, the Venice Biennale, Le Figaro’s fashion guide, Fabien Baron, Colette, Balenciaga, Céline, Cosmic Wonder, and Zucca.

Duo de l'ouvreuse de l'Opéra-Comique et de l'employé du Bon Marché

The piece was first published in Le Figaro musical in April 1893, along with the Couplets du capitaine des pompiers (in honour of Colonel Constant, the head of the fire brigade the night of the fire at the Opéra-Comique on 25 May 1887) by André Wormser.

Jean-Marc Decrop

From an early stage, he tries to encourage French intellectuals and journalists to write about Chinese art by inviting them to tour workshops and artists studios in Beijing : Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr, Michel Nuridsany (Le Figaro), Henri-François Debailleux (Liberation ).

Juliette Dodu

In 1873, Juliette Dodu was responsible for the telegraph office of Enghien-les-Bains, where she made the acquaintance of Hippolyte de Villemessant, the patron of Le Figaro.

Maja Berezowska

From 1933 to 1936 she lived in Paris and worked with magazines such as "Le Figaro", "Le Rire" and "Ici Paris".

Massacre of Badajoz

According to articles published in Le Populaire, Le Temps, Le Figaro, Paris-Soir, Diário de Lisboa and the Chicago Tribune mass executions took place and the streets of Badajoz became littered with bodies.

Tomas van Houtryve

He also published a lot of photographs in the following magazines and newspapers; Time, The New York Times, Newsweek, Le Figaro, Le Monde, The Independent Magazine, GEO, Smithsonian, Stern, Foreign Policy and National Geographic.

Transatlantic Intelligencer

The site's editor is John Rosenthal, whose writings and translations of French- and German- language journalism have appeared in publications such as Monthly Review, Le Figaro, Newsday, Policy Review, Merkur, Claremont Review of Books, Tech Central Station, World Politics Review and Les Temps Modernes.

Urbain Gohier

He wrote articles for the pro-fascist parfumier François Coty in the anti-Semitic newspaper The Pillory, wherein he denounced the "Jewish complicity" of Le Figaro and "Judeo-Bolshevik" conspiracies.

Waleed Abulkhair

Many major international journalists have interviewed Abu Al-Khair, for example: Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post; Pierre Prier, Le Figaro; Frank Gardner, BBC; and Jacob Templin, TIME Magazine.


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Georgy Shishkin

At Christie's, during an auction in the Principality, one of his paintings reached fourth place among works of famous artists like Arman, Botero, Folon or Matta (Le Figaro, 20 March 1999).

Max Olivier-Lacamp

Max Olivier, also known as Max-Olivier Lacamp, was a reporter for Le Figaro and reported on the Partition of India, in 1947.

Pierre Giffard

In June 1906, he went back to Le Figaro and reported the first meeting of the Russian parliament, the Douma.