Paul Journoud


Paul Journoud was a French chess master and editor.
He was a member of the Café de la Régence chess club in Paris, and one of leading French masters in the 1850s/1860s. Journoud lost all games to Paul Morphy, which all took place during his first visit in Paris in 1858, although won a consultation game against the American grandmaster playing together with Jules Arnous de Rivière. He lost matches against de Rivière at Paris 1859, and Adolf Anderssen at Paris 1860. Among others, he played an equal match with Alexander Petrov at Paris 1863.
He was an editor of several chess periodicals: La Régence, La Nouvelle Régence, Le Palamède Français, and Le Sphinx.