The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-17
THE PARIS PRESS
SKETCHES BY LABOULAYE AND GIRARDIN
FRENCH NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSPAPER CORES
PONDENTS.

FRENCH NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSPAPER CORES
PoNDENTs.
The ssParis Guide" contains two articles on the
Paris Press by NJ. Laboulaye and NJ. Emile de
Glrardn the first of which is devoted to the His
tory OF the Press and the second to an account Of
the different journals at present published In
Paris.
The different vicisstudcs which tho press un-
derwent until the decree of 1852 which NJ. de
Persigny styled zone of the greatest services
conferred by the imperial power Of France" are
duly set forth by M. Laboulaye, who does not ap-
pear to be greatly dissatisfied with the restrictive
features OF that measure These were in brief the
obligation imposed the journals to procure ON
authorization from government the exactlon OF O
very considerable money security liable to part al
or entire confiscation: and the establishment OF q
surveillance. In spite of the sophisticated argn-
ments which are adduced in defence OF this policy,
and notwithstand ding NJ. Girardins denial that the
level Of journalistic talent in Paris has been de-
pressed by its adoption it is easy to perceive that
NJ Laboulaye casts wistful eye to the future, and
NJ. Girardn himself admits that. though the penal
laws may sometimes have the effect OF embolden-
ing writer's, yet the fiscal laws such as those rela-
ting to caution-money and fines, cannot help but
retard the progress of journalism in France; and
thus it is that many who cannot afford to subscribe
family circle, betake themselves to the cafe or cab
dret. 'The day." he says, when the pollhcai
press of France will no longer have to drag behind
it the two dead-weights of the stamp duty and the
caution-money, that day will sec it mistress OF Eu-
rope. How is it that France possesses the means
of influence, this instrument OF conquest, and
makes no use oft? This is "a question which oil
Americans and Englishmen, attracted to Paris by
the Exhibition will not fail to ask"
There are seventeen political daily journals pub
and sded IN Paris Rs sR six he naRnns ae m9o ou1
mails, tho Journal deS Debdts, the Moni.eur, the
Constitutional, the Steele and the Union, which
were started before 1852, have not been Obliged to
provide themselves with an authorization from
government, and the same is the case with the
following evening papers, VIZ: the Gaze11e de
France, tho Presse, tho Patrie and the Pays
One morning journal, the Monde, successor OF
the Un.oers suppressed in 1860, and the remain
ing seven morning papers, are authonzea' In con-
formity with the decree above mentioned.
M. Girardin, in his short sketches OF these pa
pers, declares that they are conducted with as
much independence and talent as In other tunes.
The Journal des Debdts, founded by M MI. Bertip
freres in 1885, has lost from its staff Chateaubrand
but still boasts among it's authors NJ. M. Michael
Chevaler, Jules Janin, J. Lemoinne Provost Par
adol, Renan, and others equally celebrated; :.
The Moniteur NJ. Girardin says, has lost its
value as faithful record of history. 1t has be-
come journal of the State, and its position is
precarious.
The Constitutional and the Presse, both noted
for their clever dramatic criticisms are very we'll
conducted papers, and the Steele has the honor OF
being the best supported political journal IN Pars'
having forty-five thousand subscribers. 1t up
holds the opinions Of the Restoration in 1S15 and
the Monarchy in 1880. The Plt1ie is one OF the
journals in the confidence of the Government,
trust which it shares with the Consthutionne, the
Pdus and the Etendard. The Union is liberal
paper The Opinione Rationale espouses the
cause of oppressed nationalities. and especially OF
Italy and Poland. The Monde, very ably con-
Quoted paper, is the special organ OF the Catholic
and Papal party. The Temps holds an equal place
with the Journal des Debats, and its London cor
respondence, from the pen Of NJ. Louis Blanc, is
one of its principal exceencies. Started at tho
same time as the Temps, the journal La France ls
distinguished for the same able authorship.
NJ. Girardin speaks Of his own paper, the Lt6erta
as being .,ore successful than it deserves; Tho
number of its subscribers is thirty thousand.
The Foreign Journals in Paris" is an essay by
NJ. L. Berardi, editor Of the Independence Beige,
which enjoys an even larger circulation than the
English Times. M. Berardi complains bitterly OF
the censorship. It is, he says. Of the worst kind,
without responsibility or control, and exempt from
any obligation to give an explanation OF its pro-
ceedings. Every copy of newspaper sent into
France passes under the inspection OF junior or
senior clerk, the head Of the department and the
minister. Liable to be prohibited by any OF these
officers, its delivery to the public is always re-
tarded, and even should it pass this ordeal, it
must 70 through second under the prgets and
sousprefets before it can be allowed to circulate in
any provincial town. On these grounds the writer
denies that the foreign press derives any assist
remarks that at least, if any advantage does
accrue from it, the perslstency with which foreign
editors have advocated its abolition is wonderfully
dislnterested.
OF the foreign papers tho Independence Beige
has by far the largest circulation. Admirably
edited, it possesses no less than twenty-five cor
respondents in Paris-one for each branch Of So
cial activity. The Gazette d'Augsbourg, the Nord
and the Courier des Etats Unis are pretty gener-
ally read by the Germans, the Russians and those
Frenchmen who have relations with the United
States respectively.
from the censorship except during short period
Immediately following the coup fetdt The En-
peror, il is said used to read the Times regularly
"a habit which ho has relinquished Of late.
M. Berardi then gives us some interesting par
ticulars concerning the system Of correspondence,
and the gentlemen who fill the posts Of ''own cor
respondents in Paris.
Newspaper correspondents Of tho better class
arc well known to the political and literary public,
and mix much with eaoh other. They meet in
newspaper offices, in salons and libraries, and in
some cafes which are transformed at certain hours
Of the day into regular editors rooms. Here they
hold kind Of news exchange; nor is their mani
pulaion Of intelligence and gossip very different to
that with which spectators raist and depress the
value OF stocks on the Rouse. The government
naturally nus eooa zeal OF lnnucnce over corres-
pondents, who ore now q very numerous body
The Times has one correspondent at Paris whose
letters are in no way extraordinary The Daily
Telegraph is represented by q gentleman who spe-
cally frequents official receptions, and picks out
facetious anecdotes from the comic journals. The
Morning Post, Lord Palmerston's organ possess
ed correspondent who was specially at home in
the office OF the financial minister. The Morning
Advertiser and the Globe were both well served in
this respect at one time but perhaps the best ip-
formed correspondent at present is the represen-
tative Of The Press and tho Economist. The wife
of tho correspondent of the Daily News often
sopds communications to the provincial English
press.
After the Times, the Illustrated London News,
Punch-ofton suppressed the Daily Tele-
graph, the News Of the World is the English jour
mol most read in Paris,