High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nouvelles Extraordinaires de Divers Endroits (English: "Extraordinary News from Various Places") or Gazette de Leyde (Gazette of Leiden) was the most important newspaper of record of the international European newspapers of the late 17th to the late 18th century. In the last few decades of the 18th century it was one of the main political newspapers in the Western world. To the readers in France, it provided full coverage of the American revolution and the American revolutionary war.