Le Clairon

Le Clairon was a short-lived French newspaper, published daily, that was pro-royalist and pro-Catholic.

It was founded in March 1881 with support from the Duchesse d'Uzès, from Alfred Edwards and from France's Catholic bank Union Générale, which owned one hundred shares.

Paul Eugène Bontoux (1820–1904), chief executive of the Union Générale, controlled the financial articles of Le Clairon, by means of a "Société de Publicité Universelle", which he had created and which funded the financial advertising pages.

[1] The editor-in-chief Jules Cornély (1845–1907), recruited staff from another daily newspaper Le Gaulois.

They consisted of eleven journalists, including Louis de Fourcaud, Raoul Toché, Gabriel Terrail, called "Mermeix" (1859–1930), Arsène Houssaye (1815–1896) and Émile Blavet (1838–1924).