# Photo Journal

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{{Short description|Weekly newspaper in Quebec}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name               = Photo Journal
| image              =
| type               = [Weekly newspaper](/source/Weekly_newspaper)
| founder            = Rolland Maillet
| language           = French
| founded            = 1937
| ceased_publication = 1981 
}}

'''''Photo Journal''''' was a weekly [newspaper](/source/newspaper) in [Québec](/source/Quebec).

''Photo Journal'' had a focus on illustrations and covered the entertainment world in particular.<ref>[http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/1900531 Article sur le ''Photo Journal'' sur le site de ''Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec'']</ref>

== History ==

This newspaper was founded by Rolland Maillet.<ref name="mémoire">[http://www.memoireduquebec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Photo_Journal_(journal) Article sur le Photo Journal dans La mémoire du Québec]</ref> It was first published in 1937. It was sold to Jean-Louis Lévesque in 1964, to Jacques Brillant in 1966, to J.-Laurent Leduc in 1969, to Claude Coupal in 1973 and to Normand G. Robidoux in 1974.

In 1979, the newspaper filed for [bankruptcy](/source/bankruptcy).<ref name="mémoire"/>

Gilles Brown attempted to save it at the same time as ''[Le Petit Journal](/source/Le_Petit_Journal_(magazine))''. He was unsuccessful and the newspaper ceased publication in October 1981.<ref name="mémoire"/>

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Category:Weekly newspapers published in Quebec
Category:Newspapers established in 1937
Category:Newspapers disestablished in 1981
Category:French-language newspapers published in Quebec
Category:Defunct newspapers published in Quebec
Category:Defunct weekly newspapers

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