Jean Dupuy (politician)

Jean Dupuy (1 October 1844, Saint-Palais, Gironde – 31 December 1919, Paris) was a French politician and media owner.

A huissier by profession, he practiced in Paris and quickly became interested in the press and in politics, taking over leadership of Le Petit Parisien on the death of Paul Piégut in 1888.

He renewed that journal's formula and its circulation continued to rise, reaching 1 million at the time of the Dreyfus affair.

He thus defended the free exchange regime (which wanted to abolish the agriculture minister Jules Méline) in his journal.

Le Petit Parisien then exceeded a circulation of 2 million copies, the highest in the world at the time.