This chapter examines transatlantic news in the first newspaper of seventeenth-century France, the famous Gazette of Théophraste Renaudot, which appeared in Paris every week between 1631 and 1653. Renaudot has often been portrayed in French scholarship as a mere mouthpiece of Cardinal Richelieu, but his coverage of events in the Atlantic world shows that he was in fact a very accomplished news writer who gave a more balanced account of events than contemporaries and historians have given him credit for. Those who wanted to follow events in the South Atlantic were often better off reading Renaudot’s Gazette than the French-language editions of the Amsterdam newspapers, or the embryonic periodicals from Lisbon. As news of the climax in the war in Brazil reached Paris in the late 1640s, the Gazette reported events from as many as four different perspectives – giving equal weight to narratives of the Portuguese and Dutch generals, as well as those of the native American and (formerly enslaved) African commanders who had participated in the final battle.