Zone libre
On 28 November 1942, following the German invasion of the "Zone libre", Jacques Chastenet and Émile Mireaux, the co-directors of "Le Temps" at the time, jettisoned the newspaper. At Charles de Gaulle's request, "Le Monde" was founded on 19 December 1944 to replace "Le Temps" as the newspaper of record, with the new newspaper borrowing the layout and typeface of "Le Temps".