Le Clairon
Le Clairon was a short-lived French newspaper, published daily, that was pro-royalist and pro-Catholic. It was founded in March 1881 with support from the Duchesse d'Uzès, from Alfred Edwards and from France's main Catholic bank, l'Union générale, which owned one hundred shares. Paul Eugène Bontoux (1820–1904), chief executive of the Catholic bank, controlled the financial articles of "Le Clairon", by means of a "Société de Publicité Universelle", which he had created and which funded the financial advertising pages. The editor-in-chief Jules Cornély (1845–1907) hired away from the staff of the daily newspaper  Le Gaulois, eleven journalists, including Louis de Fourcaud, René-Raoul Toché, Gabriel Terrail, called "Mermeix" (1859–1930), Arsène Houssaye (1815–1896) and Émile Blavet (1838–1924). The shareholders of "Le Clairon" sold the newspaper to Arthur Meyer, who also acquired the "Le Gaulois" in 1882 and then the "Paris-Journal" and merged the three newspaper franchises. The merged newspaper was published under the title "Le Gaulois" from August 1884. Jules Cornély had meanwhile resigned and joined the daily newspaper "Le Matin" but in 1888 returned to "Le Gaulois" (which merged with "Le Figaro" in 1929).