Le Siècle, édition de Paris, 36ème année, n°14044

Contribution by Henri Cernuschi.
Daily news: The Question of prefects, Louis Blanc; New proposition by Edgar Quinet for their representation at the National Assembly; The Council of the 10th arrondissement summons M. Pyat to remain at the Commune; Official journal of Paris of April 25th; Ceasefire at Neuilly; Various news; Press review.
Light foxing, otherwise good condition.
Le Siècle, subtitled "political, literary and social economy journal", is a French daily newspaper whose first issue appeared on July 1st, 1836 and whose publication ceased in 1932.
Founded by Armand Dutacq, it represented under the July Monarchy the dynastic left opposed to Guizot. It was directed by Hercules Guillemot then Chambolle for the political section; Louis Desnoyers handled the literary section of the newspaper, to which numerous writers contributed including Charles Nodier, Léon Gozlan, Alphonse Karr, Jules Sandeau. Honoré de Balzac delivered his first edition of Béatrix there in August 1839.
Initially competing with La Presse by Émile de Girardin created the same day, Le Siècle quickly acquired a large audience (30,000 subscribers in 1839) and prospered until 1848. Well distributed throughout the country to a bourgeois and liberal public, its circulation increased until it became the most influential of French dailies of the time (35,000 copies in 1870).
From October 1870 to March 1871, it was published in Poitiers, then in Bordeaux. Suppressed by the Commune, it reappeared in Paris on May 15th, 1871. After this date, it would not regain the influence it had in its role as opponent.