For periodicals with the title Journal des débats published by provincial legislatures in Canada, see Hansard.
The Journal des débats (French pronunciation:[ʒuʁnaldedeba], Journal of Debates) was a French newspaper, published between 1789 and 1944 that changed title several times. Created shortly after the first meeting of the Estates-General of 1789, it was, after the outbreak of the French Revolution, the exact record of the debates of the National Assembly, under the title Journal des Débats et des Décrets ("Journal of Debates and Decrees").
Published weekly rather than daily, it was headed for nearly forty years by Bertin l'Aîné and was owned for a long time by the Bertin family. During the First Empire it was opposed to Napoleon and had a new title imposed on it, the Journal de l'Empire.
Alfred Nettement, Histoire politique, anecdotique et littéraire du « Journal des débats », Dentu, Paris, 1842.
Le Livre du centenaire du « Journal des débats », Plon, Paris, 1889.
André-Jean Tudesq, « Le Journal des débats au temps de Guizot », Politique, avril-juin 1959.
Ruth Jakoby, Das Feuilleton des « Journal des débats » von 1814 bis 1830: ein Beitrag zur Literaturdiskussion der Restauration, G. Narr, Tübingen, 1988. ISBN3-87808-786-1.