France Dimanche
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| Categories | News magazine |
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| Frequency | Weekly |
| Publisher | Hachette Filipacchi Médias |
| Total circulation (2007) |
575,000 |
| Year founded | 1946 |
| Country | France |
| Based in | Paris |
| Language | French |
| Website | Official website |
| ISSN | 0015-9549 |
France Dimanche is a French weekly celebrity news magazine published by Hachette with a circulation of about 524,000–650,000 copies. Similar to British tabloids, but with a weekly circulation, it covers celebrity gossip and scandals since 1946.
France Dimanche was established in 1946, at the end of World War II with the aim of providing entertainment for the masses. It publishes every Sunday and uses colourful pictures and headlines providing details on the lives of celebrities such as their health, financial status and personal relationships. Its writers work under pseudonyms. General news and literary content are not covered extensively.
The demographics of its readers mainly include older people and women aged between 35 and 50. Along with Ici Paris, France-Soir and Paris-Match it is considered part of the presse de sensation, i.e. the sensationalist media. It is also considered a part of the presse indiscrète, the French equivalent of the tabloid press.François Truffaut was a writer for the magazine who also worked as a photographer for the publication.
In 1949 the circulation of France Dimanche was 450,000 copies. Its circulation in the mid-1990s was about 650,000 copies. In 2001 the magazine had a circulation of 566,000 copies. In 2004 the magazines sold 537,011 copies. Its circulation was 575,000 copies in 2007.
In 1956 the news magazine carried pictures of Brigitte Bardot embracing affectionately with Roger Vadim under the headline "Et pourtant si! Il divorcent!" (And yet it's true, the divorce is on!). A 1960s article under the headline "La Défaite des mauvaises femmes" (The downfall of the bad women) chronicles the separations of Maria Kallas, Eva Bartok and Brenda Lee from the "men they seduced", as the magazine claimed at the time. Another article of the same decade carries the headline "Sooner or later Love is defeated by Scandal". During that era the magazine enumerated the love affairs of Brigitte Bardot, all the while keeping moralising criticism of the star to a minimum.
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