Le Figaro is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in a play by polymath Beaumarchais (1732–1799); one of his lines became the paper's motto: "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise".
Front page of 22 November 2015
6th issue, 20 January 1826
Front page of Le Figaro, 4 August 1914
Share of the Société du Figaro, issued 13 June 1923
A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent; they are thus "newspapers of record by reputation" and include some of the oldest and most widely respected newspapers in the world. The number and trend of "newspapers of record by reputation" is related to the state of press freedom and political freedom in a country.
The New York Times Building in Midtown Manhattan; some meanings of the term originated in reference to The New York Times.
Paris headquarters of Le Figaro, France's centre-right newspaper of record (public record and by reputation)
First edition of Neue Zürcher Zeitung (1780), the world's oldest newspaper of record by reputation
The former headquarters of El Nacional, Venezuela's long-standing newspaper of record, which was seized by the state in 2018 and forced out of newsprint production
