L'Équipe
Encyclopedia
L'Équipe is a French
nationwide daily newspaper
devoted to sport
s, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury
. The paper is noted for coverage of football (soccer)
, rugby
, motorsport
s and cycling
. Its ancestor was L'Auto, a general sports paper, whose name reflected not any narrow interest but the excitement of the time in car racing.
L'Auto originated the Tour de France
cycling
stage race in 1903 as a circulation booster. The race leader's yellow
jersey (maillot jaune) was instituted in 1919, probably to reflect the distinctive yellow newsprint
on which L'Auto was published. The competition that would eventually become the UEFA Champions League
was also the brainchild of a l'Equipe journalist, Gabriel Hanot
.
L'Auto and therefore L'Équipe owed its life to a 19th-century French scandal involving soldier Alfred Dreyfus
- the Dreyfus affair
. With overtones of anti-semitism
and post-war paranoia, Dreyfus was accused of selling secrets to France's old enemy, the Germans
.
As different sides of society insisted he was guilty or innocent - he was eventually cleared but only after rigged trials had banished him to an island prison camp - the split came close to civil war and still have their echoes in modern French society.
France's largest sports paper, Le Vélo
, mixed sports coverage with political comment. Its editor, Pierre Giffard
, believed Dreyfus innocent and said so, leading to acrid disagreement with his main advertisers. Among them were the automobile-maker the Comte de Dion
and the industrialists Adolphe Clément
and Édouard Michelin
.
Frustrated at Giffard's politics, they planned a rival paper. The editor was a prominent racing cyclist, Henri Desgrange
, who had published a book of cycling tactics and training and was working as a publicity writer for Clément. Desgrange was a strong character but lacked confidence, so much doubting the Tour de France founded in his name that he stayed away from the pioneering race in 1903 until it looked like being a success.
Three years after the foundation of L'Auto-Vélo in 1900, a court in Paris decided that the title was too close to its main competitor, Giffard's Le Vélo. Thus reference to 'Vélo' was dropped and the new paper became simply L'Auto. It was printed on yellow paper because Giffard used green.
Circulation was sluggish, however, and only a crisis meeting called "to nail Giffard's beak shut", as Desgrange phrased it, came to its rescue. Then, on the first floor of the paper's offices in the rue du Faubourg-Montmartre in Paris, a 23-year-old cycling and rugby writer called Géo Lefèvre
suggested a race round France, bigger than any other paper could rival and akin to six-day races on the track.
The Tour de France proved a success for the newspaper; circulation leapt from 25,000 before the 1903 Tour to 65,000 after it; in 1908 the race boosted circulation past a quarter of a million, and during the 1923 Tour it was selling 500,000 copies a day. The record circulation claimed by Desgrange was 854,000, achieved during the 1933 Tour.
Desgrange died in 1940 and ownership passed to a consortium of Germans. The paper began printing comment not unfavourable to the occupying Nazis and its doors were nailed shut with the return of peace. No paper having printed under the Germans was allowed to continue.
In 1940 Jacques Goddet
succeeded Desgrange as editor and nominal organiser of the Tour de France (although he refused German requests to run it during the war, see Tour de France during the Second World War
). Jacques Goddet was the son of L'Autos first financial director, Victor Goddet. Goddet defended his paper's role in a court case brought by the French government but was never wholly cleared in the public mind of being close if not to the Germans then to the puppet president, Philippe Pétain
.
Goddet could point, however, to clandestine printing of Resistance newspapers and pamphlets in the L'Auto print room and he was allowed to publish a successor paper called L'Équipe. It occupied premises across the road from where L'Auto had been, in a building in fact owned by L'Auto, although the original paper's assets had been sequestrated by the state. One conditions of publication imposed by the state was that L'Équipe was to use white paper rather than yellow, which was too closely attached to L'Auto.
The new paper published three times a week from 28 February 1946. Since 1948 it has been published daily. The paper benefitted from the demise of its competitors, L’Élan, and Le Sport. Its coverage of car racing hints at the paper's ancestry by printing the words L'Auto at the head of the page in the gothic print used in the main title of the pre-war paper.
, founder of the Amaury publishing empire. Among L'Équipes most respected writers have been Pierre Chany
, Antoine Blondin
and Gabriel Hanot.
owning the dailies while his sister owned magazines such as Marie-France and Point de Vue. Philippe then founded Éditions Philippe Amaury
(EPA), which included L'Équipe, Le Parisien
and Aujourd'hui. At Philippe's death in 2006, the group passed to his widow, Marie-Odile, and their children.
The biggest-selling issue was 13 July 1998, the day after the French national football team won the World Cup. It sold 1,645,907 copies. The second best was on 3 July 2000, after France won the European football championship. It sold 1,255,633.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
nationwide daily newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
devoted to sport
Sport
A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...
s, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury
Éditions Philippe Amaury
Éditions Philippe Amaury , also known as Groupe EPA or the Amaury Group, is a French media group. Marie-Odile Amaury, widow of Philippe Amaury owns a majority of the company....
. The paper is noted for coverage of football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
, rugby
Rugby football
Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
, motorsport
Motorsport
Motorsport or motorsports is the group of sports which primarily involve the use of motorized vehicles, whether for racing or non-racing competition...
s and cycling
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...
. Its ancestor was L'Auto, a general sports paper, whose name reflected not any narrow interest but the excitement of the time in car racing.
L'Auto originated the Tour de France
Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...
cycling
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...
stage race in 1903 as a circulation booster. The race leader's yellow
Yellow
Yellow is the color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M cone cells of the retina about equally, with no significant stimulation of the S cone cells. Light with a wavelength of 570–590 nm is yellow, as is light with a suitable mixture of red and green...
jersey (maillot jaune) was instituted in 1919, probably to reflect the distinctive yellow newsprint
Newsprint
Newsprint is a low-cost, non-archival paper most commonly used to print newspapers, and other publications and advertising material. It usually has an off-white cast and distinctive feel. It is designed for use in printing presses that employ a long web of paper rather than individual sheets of...
on which L'Auto was published. The competition that would eventually become the UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
was also the brainchild of a l'Equipe journalist, Gabriel Hanot
Gabriel Hanot
Gabriel Hanot was a French association football player and journalist .He made 12 appearances for the France national football team, with his debut coming on 8 March 1908 against Switzerland. He made another 10 appearances for them up to World War I...
.
L'Auto-Vélo
Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history...
- the Dreyfus affair
Dreyfus Affair
The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent...
. With overtones of anti-semitism
Anti-Semitism
Antisemitism is suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage. According to a 2005 U.S...
and post-war paranoia, Dreyfus was accused of selling secrets to France's old enemy, the Germans
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
As different sides of society insisted he was guilty or innocent - he was eventually cleared but only after rigged trials had banished him to an island prison camp - the split came close to civil war and still have their echoes in modern French society.
France's largest sports paper, Le Vélo
Le Vélo
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, mixed sports coverage with political comment. Its editor, Pierre Giffard
Pierre Giffard
Pierre Giffard was a French journalist, a pioneer of modern political reporting, a newspaper publisher and a prolific sports organiser...
, believed Dreyfus innocent and said so, leading to acrid disagreement with his main advertisers. Among them were the automobile-maker the Comte de Dion
Albert de Dion
Marquis Jules Félix Philippe Albert de Dion was a pioneer of the automobile industry in France.-His life:...
and the industrialists Adolphe Clément
Adolphe Clément
Gustave Adolphe Clément-Bayard was a French entrepreneur...
and Édouard Michelin
Edouard Michelin
Édouard Michelin was a French industrialist. He was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Édouard and his elder brother André served as co-directors of the Michelin company....
.
Frustrated at Giffard's politics, they planned a rival paper. The editor was a prominent racing cyclist, Henri Desgrange
Henri Desgrange
Henri Desgrange was a French bicycle racer and sports journalist. He set 12 world track cycling records, including the hour record of 35.325 kilometres on 11 May 1893. He was the first organiser of the Tour de France.-Origins:Henri Desgrange was one of two brothers, twins...
, who had published a book of cycling tactics and training and was working as a publicity writer for Clément. Desgrange was a strong character but lacked confidence, so much doubting the Tour de France founded in his name that he stayed away from the pioneering race in 1903 until it looked like being a success.
L'Auto
Circulation was sluggish, however, and only a crisis meeting called "to nail Giffard's beak shut", as Desgrange phrased it, came to its rescue. Then, on the first floor of the paper's offices in the rue du Faubourg-Montmartre in Paris, a 23-year-old cycling and rugby writer called Géo Lefèvre
Géo Lefèvre
Géo Lefèvre was a French sports journalist and the originator of the idea for the Tour de France.He suggested the idea for the Tour at a meeting with Henri Desgrange, editor of the daily newspaper L'Auto as a way to boost circulation. Desgrange recruited Lefèvre from the rival daily sports paper,...
suggested a race round France, bigger than any other paper could rival and akin to six-day races on the track.
The Tour de France proved a success for the newspaper; circulation leapt from 25,000 before the 1903 Tour to 65,000 after it; in 1908 the race boosted circulation past a quarter of a million, and during the 1923 Tour it was selling 500,000 copies a day. The record circulation claimed by Desgrange was 854,000, achieved during the 1933 Tour.
Desgrange died in 1940 and ownership passed to a consortium of Germans. The paper began printing comment not unfavourable to the occupying Nazis and its doors were nailed shut with the return of peace. No paper having printed under the Germans was allowed to continue.
L'Équipe
Jacques Goddet
Jacques Goddet was a French sports journalist and director of the Tour de France from 1936 to 1986....
succeeded Desgrange as editor and nominal organiser of the Tour de France (although he refused German requests to run it during the war, see Tour de France during the Second World War
Tour de France during the Second World War
The Tour de France was not held during the Second World War because the organisers refused German requests. Although a 1940 Tour de France had been announced earlier, the outbreak of the war made it impossible for it to be held...
). Jacques Goddet was the son of L'Autos first financial director, Victor Goddet. Goddet defended his paper's role in a court case brought by the French government but was never wholly cleared in the public mind of being close if not to the Germans then to the puppet president, Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...
.
Goddet could point, however, to clandestine printing of Resistance newspapers and pamphlets in the L'Auto print room and he was allowed to publish a successor paper called L'Équipe. It occupied premises across the road from where L'Auto had been, in a building in fact owned by L'Auto, although the original paper's assets had been sequestrated by the state. One conditions of publication imposed by the state was that L'Équipe was to use white paper rather than yellow, which was too closely attached to L'Auto.
The new paper published three times a week from 28 February 1946. Since 1948 it has been published daily. The paper benefitted from the demise of its competitors, L’Élan, and Le Sport. Its coverage of car racing hints at the paper's ancestry by printing the words L'Auto at the head of the page in the gothic print used in the main title of the pre-war paper.
Émilien Amaury
In 1968 L'Équipe was bought by Émilien AmauryÉmilien Amaury
Émilien Amaury was a French publishing magnate whose company now organises the Tour de France. He worked with Philippe Pétain, head of the French government in the southern half of France during the second world war but used his position to find paper and other materials for the French Resistance...
, founder of the Amaury publishing empire. Among L'Équipes most respected writers have been Pierre Chany
Pierre Chany
Pierre Chany was a French cycling journalist. He covered the Tour de France 49 times and was for a long time the main cycling writer for the daily newspaper, L'Équipe.- Biography :...
, Antoine Blondin
Antoine Blondin
Antoine Blondin was a French writer.He belonged to the literary group called the Hussards. He was also a sports columnist in L'Équipe. Blondin also wrote under the name Tenorio.-Biography:...
and Gabriel Hanot.
Philippe Amaury - Éditions Philippe Amaury
The death of Émilien Amaury in 1977 led to a six-year legal battle over inheritance between his son and daughter. This was eventually settled amicably with Philippe AmauryPhilippe Amaury
Philippe Amaury was a French publishing tycoon and entrepreneur who dominated the French media world. Amaury was the son of the publisher Émilien Amaury....
owning the dailies while his sister owned magazines such as Marie-France and Point de Vue. Philippe then founded Éditions Philippe Amaury
Éditions Philippe Amaury
Éditions Philippe Amaury , also known as Groupe EPA or the Amaury Group, is a French media group. Marie-Odile Amaury, widow of Philippe Amaury owns a majority of the company....
(EPA), which included L'Équipe, Le Parisien
Le Parisien
Le Parisien is a French daily newspaper covering both international and national news, and local news of Paris and its suburbs. It was established as Le Parisien libéré by Émilien Amaury in 1944, and the name was changed to the current one in 1986...
and Aujourd'hui. At Philippe's death in 2006, the group passed to his widow, Marie-Odile, and their children.
Evolutionary milestones
- In 1980 L'Équipe began publishing a magazine with its Saturday edition.
- On 31 August 1998, L'Équipe TV was formed
- In 2005 a Sports et Style supplement was added to the Saturday edition.
- In 2006 L'Équipe Féminine was first published.
- In 2006 L'Équipe bought the monthly, Le Journal du Golf.
- In early 2007 L'Équipe supplemented its main website with L'équipe junior, dedicated to youth.
Paid sales in France
| Titre | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Équipe | 386,189 | 386,601 | 455,598 | 321,153 | 339,627 | 369,428 | 365,654 | 365,411 |
The biggest-selling issue was 13 July 1998, the day after the French national football team won the World Cup. It sold 1,645,907 copies. The second best was on 3 July 2000, after France won the European football championship. It sold 1,255,633.
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- *(award taken away after doping scandal)
Directors
- 1946-1984 : Jacques GoddetJacques GoddetJacques Goddet was a French sports journalist and director of the Tour de France from 1936 to 1986....
- 1984-1993 : Jean-Pierre Courcol
- 1993-2002 : Paul Roussel
- 2003-2008 : Christophe Chenut
Editors
- 1946-1954 : Marcel Oger
- 1954-1970 : Gaston Meyer
- 1970-1980 : Edouard Seidler
- 1980-1987 : Robert Parienté
- 1987-1989 : Henri Garcia
- 1989-1990 : Noel Couëdel
- 1990-1992 : Gérard Ernault
- 1993-2003 : Jérôme Bureau
- 2003- : Claude Droussent and Michel Dalloni
See also
- Athlete of the YearAthlete of the YearAthlete of the Year is an award given by various sports organizations for the athlete whom they have determined to be deserving of such recognition....
- Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the YearLaureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year-List of winners and nominees:-Trivia:-See also:*Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year*L'Équipe Champion of Champions Award*Athlete of the Year-References:...
(Laureus World Sports Academy) - Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the YearLaureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the YearList of winners and nominees of the Laureus World Sports Awards: Sportswoman of the Year-List of winners and nominees:-Statistics:Nominations*By sport:...
- BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year
External links
- L'Équipes website (French)