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Virginia Argus
Richmond, Virginia
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Detailed statistics on Paris's publishing industry, including 455 booksellers, 840 printers, and circulation numbers for daily newspapers such as the Moniteur (20,000 copies) and Journal de Paris (16,000 copies), as reported from Philadelphia on July 10.
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There are in the city of Paris 455 booksellers, 840 book printers, 136 master bookbinders, 41 stitchers, 327 engravers, 85 copperplate printers, 49 print sellers, and 71 shops for retailing old books. The newspapers of Paris are not so many as before the consular government, the following are the numbers published daily of the following papers:
Moniteur, (official paper,) 20,000
Journal des Defenseurs (demi-off) 10,000
Journal de Paris, 16,000
Publiciste, 14,000
Journal des Debats, 12,000
Clef du Cabinet, 6,000
The other papers such as the old court paper, called Gazette de France, and the Journal du Commerce, Le Citoyen Francaise, Journal du Soir, &c. from 5 to 2000.
One paper exclusively devoted to advertisements, called Les Petits Afiches, prints 30,000 daily!
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In Paris, there are 455 booksellers, 840 book printers, 136 master bookbinders, 41 stitchers, 327 engravers, 85 copperplate printers, 49 print sellers, and 71 shops for old books. Newspapers have decreased since the consular government; daily circulations include Moniteur (20,000, official), Journal des Defenseurs (10,000), Journal de Paris (16,000), Publiciste (14,000), Journal des Debats (12,000), Clef du Cabinet (6,000), others from 5 to 2,000, and Les Petits Afiches (30,000, advertisements).