Jours de France is a defunct French news magazine which was created and belonged to French industrialist Marcel Dassault

Marcel Dassault

Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch was a French aircraft industrialist.-Biography:Dassault was born in Paris. After graduating from the lycée Condorcet, Breguet School and Supaero, he invented a type of aircraft propeller used by the French army during World War I and founded the Société des...

. It succeeded to an earlier magazine called Semaine de France and was originally intended as a competitor to Paris Match

Paris Match

Paris Match is a French weekly magazine. It covers major national and international news along with celebrity lifestyle features. It was founded in 1949 by the industrialist Jean Prouvost....

. It ran from 1958 to 1989.

It was used as a tool by Dassault to propagate his political ideas and vision, such as organizing a World Fair in Paris (which did not happen).

It was sent for free to all French dentists and physicians in France so that it was available to patients in the waiting rooms. It was essentially supported by publicity, which allow to keep a relatively low price.

It had pages devoted to fashion, health issues, social events in Paris, a regular editorial by Marcel Dassault, drawings by Jacques Faizant, Coq, Kiraz

Edmond Kiraz

Edmond Kiraz is an French cartoonist and illustrator.-Biography:Born in Cairo of Armenian descent, Kiraz began his career as a political cartoonist after emigrating to post-World War II Paris. In 1959, while he was working for the French magazine Jours de France, his boss, Marcel Dassault, had...

and Hervé (alias of Hervé des Vallières).