VSD is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 weekly news, celebrity and leisure magazine, published on Thursdays. The name is formed from the first letters of the French names for Friday (Vendredi), Saturday (Samedi) and Sunday (Dimanche).

VSD was first published on 9 September 1977 by Maurice Siegel. After Siegel's death in 1985, direction passed to his sons François and Jean-Dominique. Publication ceased in August 1995. The title was purchased by Prisma Presse (Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann

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 group) and relaunched in June 1996. Like its rival Paris Match

Paris Match

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 it relies heavily on paparazzi

Paparazzi

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photography.

Circulation in the 1980s reached 400,000 copies. In 2005, average sales were over 200,000.