Le Petit Parisien was a prominent French newspaper during the Third Republic. It was published between 1876 and 1944, and its circulation was over two million after the First World War.
Illustrated literary supplement, January 1903.
Front page on 4 September 1939, headlining the French declaration of war against Germany, three days after the start of World War II
The French Third Republic was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.
Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy in front of the Palais Bourbon, seat of the Corps Législatif, on 4 September 1870
A French propaganda poster from 1917 is captioned with an 18th-century quote: "Even in 1788, Mirabeau was saying that War is the National Industry of Prussia."
The Sacré-Cœur Basilica was built as a symbol of the Ordre Moral.
Georges Ernest Boulanger, nicknamed Général Revanche