Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits

Compared to most contemporary countries, such as France, Great Britain or the Holy Roman Empire, there was little government interference (censorship or monopolies).

[10] Several of them began publishing French-language newspapers (French being both their language and internationally used - see lingua franca) in a number of European cities covering political news in France and Europe.

[15] Nouvelles Extraordinaires, like other newspapers of its time, gave primarily political and commercial information, classified by source and date of arrival (the oldest, from the most distant lands, coming first).

[6] It offered reports on international politics, such as wars and diplomatic relations, as well as coverage of major domestic affairs.

[6] Like many other early newspapers, it offered judgments and prognostications, and was in the main a juxtaposition of rumors and announcements from various sources, presented without much unification.

[2] Under a new name—Journal politique publié à Leyde—it lasted from 1804 until 1811, but it never regained its audience and its quality, and disappeared after the annexation of Holland by the French Empire.

[2] Its circulation reached several thousand,[9][17] with the highest estimates of about 10,000 issues, and copies of it were found from Moscow and Istanbul to Madrid and the United States.