LSE4320047: Hippolyte de Villemessant (1810-1879), founder of Le Figaro and Francis Magnard (1837-1894) journalist and senior collaborator of Villemessant. The newspaper will be deleted under the Commune and retabbed under Thiers. Cover in “” L'Eclipse”” by Gill, April 14, 1872, Paris., Gill, Andre (1840-85) / Bridgeman Images