"Le Figaro" is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826 and published in Paris. Le Figaro is the oldest national daily in France and is one of the two French newspapers of record, along with "Le Monde".

With its center-right editorial line, "Le Figaro" is the second-largest national newspaper in France after "Le Parisien" and before "Le Monde", although some regional papers such as "Ouest-France" have larger circulations. In 2012, the paper had an average circulation of 330,952 copies per issue. The paper is published in the berliner format, switching from a broadsheet in 2009.

The newspaper is owned by Le Figaro Group, whose publications include "TV Magazine" and "Evene". The company's chairman is Serge Dassault, whose Dassault Group has controlled the paper since 2004.

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