The paper distributed 710,000 copies on average every weekday. Metro is the second national daily with 658,000 copies while the Direct Plus papers (Marseille, Lille, Lyon, Paris, Nice, Strasbourg, Rennes, Montpellier, Bordeaux and Toulouse) distributed 649,000 copies (excluding Paris free evening paper Direct Soir: 345,000 in 2009).

The regional paper Ouest France, however, is still the paper with the highest circulation in the country (more than 750,000 copies). National papers like Le Monde, Le Figaro and L’Equipe have a circulation between 300,00 and 350,000.

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