The magazine is the weekly supplement of the daily newspaper Le Figaro and has been in circulation since 1978.
[17][18] Louis Pauwels, who directed and founded the magazine, was a member of GRECE,[5] and Alain de Benoist, founder of the organization, was also one of the regular contributors.
[19] Although the magazine remained loyal to its conservative stance, it began to support for neoliberalism.
[19] In 1995 Le Figaro Magazine and Le Figaro newspaper were sentenced to pay damages following the publication of an article by Victor Loupan which claimed that the Harvard University academics were destroying the French literature.
[20] Specific targets of the criticism were two American literary scholars, Susan Rubin Suleiman and Alice Jardine, who sued the publications.