{{Short description|French chess player and editor}} thumb|upright|Paul Journoud. '''Paul Journoud''' (January 1821, Lyon – December 1882, Paris) was a French chess master and editor.
He was a member of the ''Café de la Régence'' chess club in Paris, and one of leading French masters in the 1850s/1860s. Journoud lost all games to Paul Morphy, which all took place during his first visit in Paris in 1858, although won a consultation game against the American grandmaster playing together with Jules Arnous de Rivière. He lost matches against de Rivière (+4 –9 =2) at Paris 1859, and Adolf Anderssen (+1 –3 =1) at Paris 1860.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edochess.ca/players/p187.html|title=Edo Ratings, Journoud, P.|publisher=Edochess.ca|accessdate=14 December 2014}}</ref> Among others, he played an equal match with Alexander Petrov at Paris 1863.<ref>Isaak Linder, ''A. D. Petrow – pjerwyj russkij schachmatnyj master'', Fizkultura i Sport, Moskwa 1955. (Russian edition)</ref>
He was an editor of several chess periodicals: ''La Régence'' (1860), ''La Nouvelle Régence'' (1861–1864), ''Le Palamède Français'' (1864), and ''Le Sphinx'' (1865–1867).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/journoud.htm|title=Journoud|publisher=Heritagechecsfra.free.fr|accessdate=14 December 2014}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=16013 Chessgames.com – Paul Journoud]
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