Journal de Paris - First Daily Newspaper in France

Have you read the news? The Journal de Paris was the very first daily newspaper ever published in France! It launched on 1 January 1777! Roughly 150 years after "La Gazette", a weekly paper which appeared in 1631.

You have to love the headline about ephemeris data: sunrise and sunset times, weather info from the day before... The four page daily newspaper dealt mostly with arts, culture, general local news. No politics at all, as in those days, there was still censorship of the King...

Interestingly, on page 2 - right hand column, there is a letter of Monsieur de Voltaire asking the newspaper to warn their readers about books being published and attributed to him by unscrupulous printers and which he did not write...