In May 1927, the paper fell into a media prank set up by Jean-Paul Sartre and his friends, announcing that Charles Lindbergh was going to be awarded as École Normale Supérieure honorary student.

Because photography was not readily available, the newspaper relied on local artists to provide drawings and sketches for human interest stories.

[4] Therefore, the writers for Le Petit Parisien had no journalism education and were often activists and elite authors with many areas of expertise.

[6] During the interwar years, the heavy swap of editors suggests that Le Petit Parisien was suffering the effects of unregulated media ownership that plagued France until the 1980s.

[7] Le Petit Parisien did not survive its policy of collaboration with the German invaders during World War II, in spite of its efforts towards rehabilitation.