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Le Monde

French daily newspaper founded in 1944
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Summary

Le Monde is a daily newspaper[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of daily newspaper entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,586 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Golden visa for digital information franceinfo[3]
  • Country: France[4]
  • Instance of: online newspaper[5]
  • Editor: Jérôme Fenoglio[6], Marie-Pierre Lannelongue[7]
  • Founder: Hubert Beuve-Méry[8], Christian Funck-Brentano[9], René Courtin[10]
  • Publisher: Societe Editrice Du Monde[11], Louis Dreyfus[12], Jérôme Fenoglio[13]
  • Owned by: Groupe Le Monde[14]
  • Headquarters location: avenue Pierre-Mendès-France[15]
  • Place of publication: Paris[16]
  • Commons category: Le Monde[17]
  • Language of work or name: French[18]
  • Industry: publishing[19]
  • Country of origin: France[20]
  • Inception: December 18, 1944[21]
  • Start time: December 18, 1944[22]
  • Parent organization or unit: Groupe Le Monde[23]
  • Official website: https://www.lemonde.fr[24], https://journal.lemonde.fr/[25], https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/InterNews/LeMonde/[26]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Le Monde[27]
  • Web feed URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/rss/une.xml[28]
  • Political ideology: social liberalism[29]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[30]
  • Participant in: The Daphne Project[31]
  • Replaces: Le Temps[32]
  • Political alignment: centre-left[33]
  • Title: Le Monde[34]

Product Details

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  • Country: FR[35]

  • Began / founded: 1944-12[36]

  • MusicBrainz ID: a32ee189-d3b6-443a-8969-7c3e3192b30e[37]

Why It Matters

Le Monde has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

It is credited with the discovery of Panama Papers[40], an information leak[41], in Panama[42] and CumEx-Files[43], a scandal[44]. Works attributed to it include its 100 Books of the Century[45], a list of best books[46], in France[47].

FAQs

What awards did Le Monde receive?

Honors received include Golden visa for digital information franceinfo[3].

What did Le Monde discover?

Le Monde is credited as discoverer of Panama Papers[40] and CumEx-Files[43].

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [3] ↑ . visapourlimage.com. Retrieved . visapourlimage.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
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  23. [25] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
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  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [35] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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