High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Socpresse was a French corporation which controlled the conservative daily newspaper Le Figaro, the weekly magazine L`Express, 40% of the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche, Valeurs Actuelles, and the football club FC Nantes. The company was acquired by the Dassault in September 2006. Before that date, 13% of the shares belonged to Aude Ruettard, the granddaughter of Robert Hersant. After the acquisition, Dassault sold off most of the company, retaining Le Figaro.