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Le Point was founded in September 1972 by a group of journalists who had left the editorial team of L'Express. Their former employer was then owned by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, a member of parliament for the centrist Parti Radical.
Le Point is owned by Artémis, a French investment group founded and owned by billionaire businessman François Pinault. Artémis acquired the magazine in 1997.
Le Point has a conservative, centre-right editorial stance without formal affiliation to any political party.
Le Point reached its highest recorded circulation in 2007, with 443,956 copies. Circulation remained above 400,000 through 2014 before declining steadily.
Franz-Olivier Giesbert served as chief executive officer of Le Point from 2000 until the 18th of January 2014, when Etienne Gernelle replaced him. Giesbert remained as an adviser and continued writing editorials and articles.
In February 2025, Le Point journalist Erwan Seznec was accused of threatening to publish a French editor's personal information over edits describing the magazine as "populist" and close to the Identitarian movement. Seznec denied making doxing threats, and Le Point defended him, calling the edits a "series of malicious acts".