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In 1910, Pierre Lafitte founded the Excelsior newspaper with a staff of photographers in order to cover political, sporting and cultural events in France. It became the first daily newspaper illustrated with photographs, publishing around 30 images a day. Roland Dorgelès and Guillaume Apollinaire published their first texts among these pages. Sold in 1915 to Jean Dupuy, whose family owned « Le Miroir » and « Le Petit Parisien », the daily newspaper printed 100,000 copies. During the 1920s, a Sunday supplement was launched under the name « Excelsior Dimanche illustré ». Albert Londres and Georges Simenon became regular contributors. In 1939, Excelsior printed 132,000 copies a day, with the last issue appearing in June 1940.

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Roger-Viollet | 1430516 | L'aviateur Roger Coli (1881-1927) qui a tenté le raid Paris-New-York avec Charles Nungesser (1892-1927) à bord de L'Oseau Blanc . France, mai 1927. Photographie du journal Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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L'aviateur Roger Coli (1881-1927) qui a tenté le raid Paris-New-York avec Charles Nungesser [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 1430052 | Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) aboard the Spirit of St. Louis completed the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris, on May 20 and 21, 1927. Charles Lindbergh with U.S. ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick (1854-1929) (l.) leaving the building where the mother of Charles Nungesser (1892-1927), a French aviator who disappeared in an unknown part of the Atlantic, lived. Paris, May 22, 1927. Photograph from the Excelsior newspaper. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) aboard the Spirit of St. Louis completed the first non-stop solo [...]
Roger-Viollet | 821623 | Air France aircraft, French airline, carrying mail. Le Bourget airport (France), on February 16, 1938. Photograph from the collections of the newspaper Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Air France aircraft, French airline, carrying mail. Le Bourget airport (France), on February 16, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 304266 | Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). La Retirada . French guards and infantrymen searching Spanish republican militiamen at their arrival on the French territory. Le Perthus (France), on February 6, 1939. Photograph from the Excelsior newspaper. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). "La Retirada". French guards and infantrymen searching Spanish [...]
Roger-Viollet | 624046 | World War I. Fifth day of mobilization in Paris. Departure of the 5th infantry regiment, one of the oldest regiments of the French army (created in 1558). Soldiers wearing their identification tags. Paris, on August 6, 1914. | © Caudrilliers / Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
61407-5 DG
World War I. Fifth day of mobilization in Paris. Departure of the 5th infantry regiment, one of the [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 967605 | World War One. Seventh day of mobilization in Paris. Linen supplies for the Red Cross, on August 8, 1914. | © Ede / Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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World War One. Seventh day of mobilization in Paris. Linen supplies for the Red Cross, on August 8, [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 241140 | World War One. Le Havre, capital of Belgium: after the capture of Antwerp by the German army, the Belgian government settled in Le Havre (France), mid-October 1914. Hôtel des Légations. | © Piston / Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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World War One. Le Havre, capital of Belgium: after the capture of Antwerp by the German army, the [...]
Roger-Viollet | 174908 | World War One. Fifth day of mobilization in Paris. Views of several shops in Paris (France), 6th August 1914. | © Ede / Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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World War One. Fifth day of mobilization in Paris. Views of several shops in Paris (France), 6th [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 234043 | World War I. Arrival of the first US military contingents in France. Saint-Nazaire (France), late June 1917. Photograph published in the newspaper Excelsior , late June 1917. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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World War I. Arrival of the first US military contingents in France. Saint-Nazaire (France), late [...]
Roger-Viollet | 796992 | World War I. Street scene : men having lunch on truck, in front of shop of café and liqueurs. Paris, late May 1917. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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World War I. Street scene : men having lunch on truck, in front of shop of café and liqueurs. [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 762886 | World War I. Thirteenth day of mobilization in Paris, August 14, 1914. Infantrymen going to the front in a train crossing the station of Champigny-sur-Marne (France). Offering refreshments to our infantrymen. Photograph published in the newspaper Excelsior , on Saturday August 15, 1914. | © Caudrilliers / Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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World War I. Thirteenth day of mobilization in Paris, August 14, 1914. Infantrymen going to the [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1429613 | Angling competition on the Ile Saint-Louis. Paris (IVème arr.), July 20, 1924. Photograph from the Excelsior newspaper. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Angling competition on the Ile Saint-Louis. Paris (IVème arr.), July 20, 1924. Photograph from the [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1429580 | Fêtes. Paris, May 1924. Photograph from the Excelsior newspaper. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Fêtes. Paris, May 1924. Photograph from the "Excelsior" newspaper.
Roger-Viollet | 1429488 | Barrel race. Paris, 1923. Photograph from the Excelsior newspaper. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Barrel race. Paris, 1923. Photograph from the "Excelsior" newspaper.
Roger-Viollet | 889722 | René Hervagault, French photographer contributing to the newspaper Excelsior , winning the championship of reporters and photographers in Montmartre. Paris (18th arrondissement), on May 31, 1939. Photograph from the collections of the newspaper Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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René Hervagault, French photographer contributing to the newspaper "Excelsior", winning the [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 1297884 | Bystanders watching a solar eclipse through smoked glass on the Parisian boulevards. Paris, Friday 8 April 1921. Photograph from the French newspaper Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
201012-19 DG
Bystanders watching a solar eclipse through smoked glass on the Parisian boulevards. Paris, Friday [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1297628 | Portrait of Léon Blum (1872-1950), French politician. Tuesday 11 January 1921. Photograph from the French newspaper Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Portrait of Léon Blum (1872-1950), French politician. Tuesday 11 January 1921. Photograph from the [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1297817 | Parisians watching the solar eclipse through smoked glass. Paris, Friday 8 April 1921. Photograph from the French newspaper Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Parisians watching the solar eclipse through smoked glass. Paris, Friday 8 April 1921. Photograph [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1312844 | excelsior. Excelsior et les grands journaux parisiens désormais acheminés à Londres par avion. Mercredi 5 avril 1922. Photographie du journal Excelsior . 19220405. | © Piston / Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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excelsior. "Excelsior" et les grands journaux parisiens désormais acheminés à Londres par avion. [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 1297883 | Bystanders and a cinema operator watching a solar eclipse from the roof of the Excelsior headquarters. Paris, Friday 8 April 1921. Photograph from the French newspaper Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
201012-12 DG
Bystanders and a cinema operator watching a solar eclipse from the roof of the "Excelsior" [...]
Roger-Viollet | 619751 | Eric Nessler (1898-1976), French aviator and pioneer of gliding, at the Beynes-Thiverval airfield. Beynes (France), on April 29, 1939. Photograph from the collections of the newspaper Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Eric Nessler (1898-1976), French aviator and pioneer of gliding, at the Beynes-Thiverval airfield. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 672559 | Jean Hervé (1884-1966), acteur français et sociétaire de la Comédie-Française et Gabriel Boissy (1879-1949), écrivain français, critique de théâtre et metteur en scène de la pièce Oedipe roi de Sophocle assis parterre tous les deux, lors des répétitions de la pièce, au Théâtre antique d'Orange (Vaucluse). Photographie du journal Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Jean Hervé (1884-1966), acteur français et sociétaire de la Comédie-Française et Gabriel Boissy [...]
Roger-Viollet | 670215 | Swimming across Paris, swimming competition. A competitor. Paris, on July 20, 1919. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
77090-10 DG
Swimming across Paris, swimming competition. A competitor. Paris, on July 20, 1919.
Roger-Viollet | 879025 | Guerre 1939-1945. Des enfants alsaciens-lorrains évacués faisant une ronde. Saint-Junien (Haute-Vienne), 5 novembre 1939. Photographie du journal Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
80029-29 DG
Guerre 1939-1945. Des enfants alsaciens-lorrains évacués faisant une ronde. Saint-Junien [...]
Roger-Viollet | 886957 | Guerre 1914-1918. Mr Maurice Barrès à l'école des mutilés du quai de la Rapée. Paris (12e arr.), début décembre 1915. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Guerre 1914-1918. Mr Maurice Barrès à l'école des mutilés du quai de la Rapée. Paris (12e arr.), [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1073636 | Si Kaddour ben Ghabrit, habillé en burnous (1868-1954), haut fonctionnaire algérien et fondateur de l'Institut musulman de la Grande Mosquée de Paris, Mahmoud Fakhry Pasha (1884-1952), ambassadeur d'Égypte en France, à la Grande Mosquée de Paris. Réunion des notabilités musulmanes pour la fête de l'Aïd el-Kébir durant laquelle sont sacrifiés des moutons. Paris (Vème arr.), 20 janvier 1940. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
80031-6 DG
Si Kaddour ben Ghabrit, habillé en burnous (1868-1954), haut fonctionnaire algérien et fondateur de [...]