Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1878 — A French Newspaper Enterprise. [ARTICLE]

A French Newspaper Enterprise.

The great journalistic humbug, M. de Villemessant, announces that he.is going to make a revolution in French journalism. The Figaro is to become an eight-page paper of the English pattern. The Government having reduced the postage-stamp one centime a copy, he says he will realize an income of $20,000 a year, and can afford to carry out the plan which he has been working over for several years past. He comforts the public with the promise that the Figaro will preserve in its main part the essentially Parisian character it has always had, but will have some English blood infused into its additional four pages. “It will be a cross between a French and an English newspaper,” says M. Villemessant, “and it is in the light of a Figaro-7'imes that we wish the public to look at our journal.” He expects a circulation of 100,000 copies, and acknowledges that, with its present circulation of 65,000, the paper has had a profit of 1,200,000 francs.— New York Sun.