Before the 18th century, France was a centralized feudal ruling society, establishing print concessions and feudal censorship systems to restrict freedom of press publication. For this reason, political opposition often published newspapers abroad and sold back to France in secret. During the period of the Enlightenment Movement, the Enlightenment Movement, enlightenment thinkers published numerous works, directly promoting the struggle for freedom of speech and publication. After the bourgeois revolution, the third class of France proposed freedom of press, and Milabo called on the newspaper to ¡°permanent, inviolable, unlimited freedom¡± The Declaration of Human Rights became the first official document in human history that explicitly stipulated freedom of publication.

After the 18th century, France entered a century of struggle for press freedom.

In the period of the First French Republic of 1789-1799, the press of various factions were initially free to publish. In August 1791, the Constitutional Assembly passed the Law on Press Responsibility, which stipulated abuses of freedom of publication. The law on freedom of publication was thus improved, but soon broken by frequent regime changes. First, the Gillette-dominated bourgeois press was banned, in 1793 the Jacobinists began to rule terror, and in August the guardian decree was issued, and the publication of the newspaper was either closed or became its tongue. In February 1794, the party ended the reign of terror, but in order to suppress the opposition still pursued a high-pressure policy on freedom of press publication. The famous newspaper of this period was The Debate Day.

During the First French Empire, Napoleon banned more than sixty newspapers, re-established the licensing system, and the press freedom before the Revolution was legally denied.As he said, ¡°The revolutionary newspapers are over, there can only be a unique party in France, and I will never allow newspapers to speak or do anything that is detrimental to the national interests.¡± In 1805, a press inspector was established in the editorial department of the newspapers, and later a newspaper was allowed in each province, and by 1811, only four newspapers remained and were state-owned.

Louis XVIII vowed to respect freedom of press publication. In October 1814, the pretext was to restore freedom of press publication, to maintain the publication franchise and the printing tax system. In 1815, during the re-establishment of Napoleon's day, the press publication was once completely free. In 1819, the Minister of Justice-Sell first attempted in the history of French press to formulate a law, abolish the pre-trial system, and the press cases were brought to the jury, but were soon abolished. In 1830, the Duke of Polynesia abolished the right to publish all newspapers and implemented the press inspection system. This led to the revolution.

In the late mid-19th century, it entered the era of cheap commercial newspapers. The July dynasty, due to historical reasons, the new regime was forced to announce the abolition of all press checks, reduced publication guarantees, and gained relative freedom of publication. After the attempted assassination of the king in 1835, authorities again tightened the control of the press, increasing the guarantees.

1848 ¨C The Second French Republic in 1851 abolished printing taxes and guarantees, and the press unlimited freedom. After June 7, the guarantees and printing taxes were restored. In 1848, the Constitution stipulated the freedom of publication for the people.

During the Second Empire, the rulers considered journalistic crimes to be criminal crimes, and in 1852 the system of inspection of newspapers was fully restored, and official announcements were issued. After the empire weakened, the survival environment for journalism improved. During this period, the party's newspapers and commercial newspapers co-developed.

In 1870, entering the period of the Third Republic, press freedom was immediately fully restored, many newspapers were published, free to speak, the bourgeois regime was established after the PFA war, seized six newspapers, followed by the birth of the Paris Commune and the Hill regime in Versailles in Paris. In May 1877, McMahon activated the Cabinet of the Bourgeois Duke of Broglie, and Bush undertook unprecedented suppression of the republican newspapers, which was the last attempt by the government to control the newspapers in French history.

In 1879, the Republicans came to power and enacted the Press Law, and on 29 July 1881, the Parliament passed the Freedom of the Press Act, which marked the period of stable development of the French press industry, a comprehensive summary of the period of development of the freedom of the press and the publication after the French Revolution, and the result of the long struggle of the French press community for the freedom of the press and the publication.

Hence, after years of efforts to improve, to struggle for freedom of the press, the formation of the French press communication career is characterized by a liberal change of meaning with the change of regime, a history of political development.