This article examines the way that spoken language is represented in the Gazette d’Amsterdam in January 1782. First, we explore the different text types published by this periodical in order to identify those which are speech-related. We then examine all of the instances of reported speech in the corpus in order to show how it was used by historical journalists and correspondants. Finally, the data about reported speech are used to identify all of the dialogic exchanges in the corpus. The three parts of the study lead to the same general conclusion: spoken language is definitely represented in the Gazette d’Amsterdam but it occurs less frequently than it does in contemporary newspapers. We show that it should nevertheless be of interest to linguists specializing in reported speech, in journalistic discourse, or in historical French linguistics.