The French daily newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ (celebrating its 200th birthday this year) published yesterday its literary supplement ‘Le Figaro Littéraire’. Its front page is dedicated to the (dying) art of the diary: ‘Journal intime, les derniers feux’ says the French original title, which I would translate as “Diary: a Fading Art” but literally translates as “Personal diary, the last embers”.

Beside the front page, the supplement only dedicates two pages to the topic, and only talks about published/famous writers keeping a diary, not saying a word about mere people keeping a diary but that’s ok.

The screenshot is probably unreadable but I thought you might be enjoying having a look at that double page to see what it was like inside:

BTW, if you read French, I consider Pierre Bergounioux’s and Julien Green’s diaries remarkable (they are two of the names mentioned in those two pages).

(and, yep, I’m one of those people who do read print newspapers daily, not their online version. I read one in the morning and another one, from another political side, in the evening)