Vincent Bolloré and Bernard Arnault interested in "Le Figaro"

Louise Bernard with Gauthier Delomez 10:39 am, November 25, 2021

Will the

newspaper

change hands?

Businessmen Vincent Bolloré and Bernard Arnault both put forward an offer this summer for a possible repurchase of the centuries-old title, owned by the Dassault family.

Information confirmed by Laurent Dassault in the newspaper

, after the mention by Mediapart this weekend of negotiations between the owners and Vincent Bolloré, at the head of the Vivendi group (main shareholder of the Lagardère group, owner of Europe 1).

However, the Dassault family was categorical in the columns of the

: no,

is not for sale.

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"We will not sell our story"

To support this refusal to sell, Laurent Dassault explains that he never thought of parting with this historic title of the French press.

"We have two buyers, but we will not sell our story. We have a duty to remember our father" Serge Dassault, declared Laurent in the newspaper

.

Between 2020 and 2021, the circulation of the

group's newspapers

averaged 342,000 issues per month, according to the Alliance for Press and Media Figures.

The group also owns

and

.