It was financed by a fund-raising round from family and friends of the founders, brought together a few months earlier in a method dubbed the "calendar multiplier" by Ronai and Rosselin.

[citation needed] The issues published during the Gulf War, begun in January 1991, which translated Arab newspapers banned in France,[3] were especially successful.

[citation needed] Jacques Rosselin, one of the founders, managed the magazine until the end of 1994, less than a year after it was bought by Générale Occidentale (a subsidiary of Alcatel, which also owned L'Express and Le Point).

[citation needed] Courrier International was then sold to Vivendi, together with L'Express, then to Le Monde group, which had looked to buy it since its creation.

[5] The redesign was accompanied by a marketing campaign which included an image of two planes passing above digitally shortened towers of the World Trade Center in New York.