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{{short description|French weekly news magazine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Paris Match
| logo = Paris Match 1981 logo.svg
| image_file = Alexandre coste.jpg
| image_size = 
| image_caption = [[Alexandre Coste]], son of [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco|Albert II of Monaco]], on the cover of ''Paris Match'', 21 October 2003
| publisher = 
| category = [[News magazine]]
| total_circulation = 568,115
| circulation_year = 2020
| frequency = Weekly
| language = French
| editor = [[Jérôme Béglé]]
| editor_title = [[Editor-in-chief]]
| founded = 1949
| firstdate = {{start date and age|df=y|1949|3|25}}
| company = [[LVMH]]
| country = France
| based = [[Paris]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.parismatch.com}}
| issn = 0397-1635
}}

'''''Paris Match''''' ({{IPA|fr|paʁi matʃ}}) is a [[French language|French-language]] weekly magazine that features a mix of news and pop culture. It covers major national and international news along with celebrity lifestyle features and photo reporting. ''Paris Match'' has been considered "one of the world's best outlets for [[photojournalism]]".<ref>{{cite news |date=25 June 2001 |title=Roger Therond, 76, Editor of Paris Match |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/25/world/roger-therond-76-editor-of-paris-match.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220201642/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/25/world/roger-therond-76-editor-of-paris-match.html |archive-date=20 December 2016 |access-date=18 June 2023}}</ref> Its content quality was compared to the American magazine ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]''.<ref name="Independent2006">{{cite news |date=4 August 2006 |title=Beau Monde: The power and glory of Paris-Match |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/beau-monde-the-power-and-glory-of-parismatch-410529.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230916173138/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/beau-monde-the-power-and-glory-of-parismatch-410529.html |archive-date=16 September 2023 |access-date=16 September 2023}}</ref> ''Paris Match''{{'}}s original slogan was "''Le poids des mots, le choc des photos''" ("The weight of words, the shock of photos"), which was changed to "Life is a true story" in 2008.<ref name="Figaro2008">{{cite news |date=22 January 2008 |title=Un nouveau slogan pour Paris-Match |trans-title=A new slogan for Paris-Match |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2008/01/22/01011-20080122FILWWW00433-un-nouveau-slogan-pour-paris-match.php |url-status=live |language=fr |newspaper=[[Le Figaro]] |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230916175338/https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2008/01/22/01011-20080122FILWWW00433-un-nouveau-slogan-pour-paris-match.php |archive-date=16 September 2023 |access-date=16 September 2023}}</ref> The magazine was sold by [[Lagardère Group|Lagardère]] to [[LVMH]] in 2024.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Lagardère and LVMH complete the sale of Paris Match - LVMH |url=https://www.lvmh.com/publications/lagardere-and-lvmh-complete-the-sale-of-paris-match |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=www.lvmh.com}}</ref>

==History and profile==
A sports news magazine,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&collapsing=disabled&query=(arkPress+all+%22cb32812178x_date%22)#resultat-id-1|title=p1 - Your search - List of results At number : 542 Results - Gallica|website=gallica.bnf.fr}}</ref> ''Match l'intran'' (a play on ''[[L'Intransigeant]]''), was launched on 9 November 1926 by [[Léon Bailby]]. It was acquired by the [[Louis Louis-Dreyfus|Louis-Dreyfus]] group in 1931 and then by the industrialist [[Jean Prouvost]]<ref name=aud/> in 1938. Under Prouvost the magazine expanded its focus beyond sports, to a format reminiscent of ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'': ''Le Match de la vie'' ("The Match of Life") and then ''Match, l'hebdomadaire de l'actualité mondiale'' ("Match, the weekly of world news"). Following the outbreak of [[World War II]] it became ''Match de la guerre'' ("Match of War") in October 1939. Selling for 2 francs a copy, it reached a circulation of 1.45 million by November.  Publication was halted on 6 June 1940, during the [[Battle of France]].

The magazine was relaunched in 1949 with a new name, ''Paris Match''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Historical development of the media in France|url=http://www.mheducation.co.uk/openup/chapters/9780335236220.pdf|publisher=McGraw-Hill Education|access-date=24 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225005455/http://www.mheducation.co.uk/openup/chapters/9780335236220.pdf|archive-date=25 February 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The magazine temporarily ceased publication between 18 May and 15 June 1968 upon the call for a strike by the Syndicat du Livre, the French printers' union.<ref name=aud>{{cite journal|author=Audrey Leblanc|title=The Color of May 1968|journal=Études Photographiques|date=November 2010|volume=26|url=http://etudesphotographiques.revues.org/3456|access-date=24 April 2015}}</ref>

In 1976, [[Daniel Filipacchi]] purchased the ailing ''Paris Match''.<ref>{{cite news |date=2 September 1976 |title=A Top French Publisher Purchases Paris-Match |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/02/archives/a-top-french-publisher-purchases-parismatch.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820134959/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/02/archives/a-top-french-publisher-purchases-parismatch.html |archive-date=20 August 2023 |access-date=20 August 2023}}</ref> It continues to be one of France's most successful and influential magazines. It is published weekly and was until October 2024 part of [[Hachette Filipacchi Médias]],<ref name=mor>{{cite web|title=Top 50 Finance/Business/News magazines worldwide (by circulation)|url=http://www.magazine.org.tw/events/school/report/wmt/top50finance.pdf|publisher=Magazine Organization|access-date=13 December 2014|format=Report}}</ref> which is itself owned by the [[Lagardère Group]].<ref>Madjar, Robert (1997). ''Daniel Filipacchi''.  Editions Michel Lafon.</ref>

On occasion, ''Paris Match'' has sold more than one million copies worldwide when covering major events, such as the first flight by a French [[astronaut]], [[Patrick Baudry]], aboard the U.S. [[Space Shuttle]] [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]] in June 1985. [[Benoît Clair]], a senior writer for ''Paris Match'', was the first journalist allowed to join the shuttle crew members from training until the departure for the launch pad at [[Cape Canaveral]]. A series of reports on the training was published in ''Paris Match'' on 22 April 1985, 17 June 1985 and 20 January 1986.<ref>Baudry, Patrick (1985). "Aujourd'hui le soleil se lève 16 fois" avec Benoit Clair. Editions Michel Lafon.</ref>

As of 1996 the magazine has adopted an independent political stance.<ref name=Humphreys1996/>

In February 2024, it was publicly disclosed that the luxury brand LVMH is in talks to purchase Paris Match from the media conglomerate Lagardère SA.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LVMH in Exclusive Talks With Lagardere for Paris Match Magazine |url=https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/lvmh-in-exclusive-talks-with-lagardere-for-paris-match-magazine-1.2039938 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> LVMH purchased the magazine in October of 2024 for €120 million.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Carabin |first=Aurélie |last2=Williams |first2=Stuart |title=LVMH's Bernard Arnault acquires glossy French weekly Paris Match for €120 million |url=https://fortune.com/europe/2024/10/02/lvmhs-bernard-arnault-bollore-paris-match/ |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=Fortune Europe |language=en}}</ref>

==Circulation==
''Paris Match'' had a circulation of 1,800,000 copies in 1958.<ref name="Independent2006"/><ref>{{cite book|author1=Serge Berstein|author2=Jean-Pierre Rioux|title=The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GyhQAJeOZoC&pg=PA200|access-date=21 April 2015|date=13 March 2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-58061-8|page=200}}</ref> The 1988 circulation of the magazine was 873,000, making it the best-selling news weekly in the country.<ref name="Humphreys1996">{{cite book|author=Peter Humphreys|title=Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vlTzbOGhdIC&pg=PA88|access-date=15 November 2014|date=15 May 1996|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-3197-7|page=88}}</ref> In 2001 the weekly was the tenth-largest-circulation news magazine worldwide, with a 630,000 sale.<ref name=mor/>

''Paris Match'' had a circulation of 655,000 during the 2007–2008 period.<ref name="Figaro2008"/><ref>{{cite web|author=Anne Austin|display-authors=etal|title=Western Europe Market & Media Fact|url=http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20&%20MediaFact%202008.pdf|work=ZenithOptimedia|access-date=8 April 2015|date=2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205131709/http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20%26%20MediaFact%202008.pdf|archive-date=5 February 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2009 the magazine was the best-selling photonews magazine in France, with a circulation of 611,000 copies.<ref>{{cite book|author=Raymond Kuhn|title=The Media In Contemporary France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3oVTBgAAQBAJ&pg=RA4-PA9|access-date=1 March 2015|date=1 March 2011|publisher=McGraw-Hill Education (UK)|isbn=978-0-335-23622-0|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=World Magazine Trends 2010/2011 |url=http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Europe.pdf |work=FIPP |access-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402165145/http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Europe.pdf |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref> Its circulation was 578,282 in 2014<ref>{{cite web|title=Presse Magazine |url=http://www.ojd.com/Chiffres/La-Presse/La-Presse-Payante/Presse-Magazine |work=OJD |access-date=17 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319120727/http://www.ojd.com/Chiffres/La-Presse/La-Presse-Payante/Presse-Magazine |archive-date=19 March 2015 }}</ref> and 568,115 in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Paris Match - ACPM|url=https://www.acpm.fr/site/Support/paris-match|access-date=2021-05-20|website=www.acpm.fr}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|https://www.parismatch.com}} {{in lang|fr}}

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