Le Soleil (French newspaper)

Le Soleil was a monarchist daily, more moderate than others, sold for five centimes at the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth century.

[2] The newspaper had two founders and editors, Jean-Jacques Weiss ( 1827 - 1891) and Édouard Hervé (1835 - 1899), friends who had worked together on the Orleanist and liberal Journal de Paris.

Édouard Hervé, a member of the French Academy since 1886, former adviser and friend of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, was the owner-director of Le Soleil until his death in June 1899.

[2] Renowned for the quality of its articles, Le Soleil included among its editors the reporter Félix Dubois[7] (1862 - 1945), Hugues Rebell[8] (1867 - 1905) and Paul Bézine (1861 - 1928), one of the founders of the Association of Young Royalists in 1890, and founder of the anti-Masonic association Le Grand Occident de France, who in 1912 broke with the royalist party.

[citation needed] Disavowed by the Duke of Orleans, the newspaper passed first to Ambroise Rendu and then to Louis Numa Baragnon fils, who tried in vain to retain its old readers.