Here Girardin announced that he would be publishing L'Almanach de France in an edition of no less than 1,300,000 copies--definitely an edition size probably never attempted in any country at this date. He specified that it would contain 256 pages, 511 columns of text containing 600,800 letters of type and 44 engravings. Whether he ever achieved the production and sale of such a huge number of copies may never be known. He also stated that by the second year of the Journal des Connaissances Utiles the printing run of the journal reached 130,000 copies.