French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. It was founded by
Ădouard Charton
Ădouard Charton (11 May 1807 – 27 February 1890) was an eminent French literary figure who was the founder and, for fifty-five years (1833â88), editor-in-chief of the publication '' Le Magazin pittoresque'', in addition to serving for thi ...
with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, after 1906, the first international illustrated magazine; distributed in 150 countries.
History
In 1891, ''L'Illustration'' became the first French newspaper to publish a
photograph
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. Many of these photographs came from syndicated photo-press agencies like
Chusseau-Flaviens
Charles Chusseau-Flaviens (13 February 1866 â 15 October 1928) was a self-employed French photojournalist from the 1890s to the 1910s. His distribution of other photographer's work for publication created one of the first photo press agencies, ...
, but the publication also employed its own photographers such as
Le mystĂšre de la chambre jaune
''The Mystery of the Yellow Room'' (in French ''Le mystĂšre de la chambre jaune'') is a mystery novel written by French author Gaston Leroux. One of the first locked-room mystery novels, it was first published serially in France in the periodical ...
La Petite Illustration
''La Petite Illustration'' was a weekly French literary journal. Being a supplement to ''L'Illustration'' it existed between 1913 and 26 August 1939.
History and profile
''La Petite Illustration'' was founded in 1913. It was a newspaper supplemen ...
was the name of the supplement to L'Illustration that published fiction, plays, and other arts-related material.
During the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countriesâincluding all of the great powersâforming two opposin ...
, while it was owned by the Baschet family, ''L'Illustration'' supported Marshal
Jacques Bouly de Lesdain
Jacques Bouly de Lesdain (1880-1975) was a French aristocrat, lawyer and diplomat. He was the author of several travel books about Asia and political books about Germany. He was the political editor of ''L'Illustration'' and he organised anti-Free ...
. However, Lesdain later became its political editor.
The magazine was shut down in 1944 following the
Joshua Benoliel
Joshua Benoliel (13 January 1873 â 3 February 1932) was a Portuguese photojournalist. He was the official photographer for King Carlos I of Portugal.
Biography
Joshua Benoliel was born in Lisbon, to Judah Benoliel, a Gibraltar-born Jewish ...
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863â1931) was a French photographer who was famous for taking color autochromes during World War I.
Life
He was born near Fontainebleau in Avon, Seine-et-Marne, south of Paris.
He emigrated with his parents ...
Jimmy Hare
James H. Hare (3 October 1856 â 24 June 1946) was an English photojournalist active between 1898 and 1931. He was the leading photographer during five major wars, and was the driving force behind '' Collier's'' becoming a large circulation m ...
Bertall
Charles Albert d'Arnoux (Charles Constant Albert Nicolas, Vicomte d'Arnoux, Count of Limoges-Saint-SaĂ«ns), known as ''Bertall'' (or Bertal, an anagram of Albert) or Tortu-Goth (December 18, 1820 in Paris â March 24, 1882 in Soyons) was a Fre ...
Karl Bodmer
Johann Carl Bodmer (11 February 1809 â 30 October 1893) was a Swiss-French printmaker, etcher, lithographer, zinc engraver, draughtsman, painter, illustrator and hunter. Known as Karl Bodmer in literature and paintings, as a Swiss and French c ...
EugĂšne Burnand
EugĂšne Burnand (; 30 August 1850 â 4 February 1921) was a prolific Switzerland, Swiss Painting, painter and illustrator from Moudon, Switzerland. Born of prosperous parents who taught him to appreciate art and the countryside, he first trained ...
Cham
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Ethnicities and languages
*Chams, people in Vietnam and Cambodia
**Cham language, the language of the Cham people
***Cham script
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Forain
Jean-Louis Forain (23 October 1852 â 11 July 1931) was a French Impressionist painter and printmaker, working in media including oils, watercolour, pastel, etching and lithograph. Compared to many of his Impressionist colleagues, he was mor ...
Gavarni
Paul Gavarni was the pen name of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (13 January 1804 â 24 November 1866), a French illustrator, born in Paris.
Early career
Gavarni's father, Sulpice Chevalier, was from a family line of Cooper (profession), coopers f ...
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Henry Gerbault
Henri Gerbault, Henry Gerbault, or Jean Louis Armand Henri Gerbault (24 June 1863 - 19 October 1930) was a French illustrator, water color painter, and poster artist.
He was born in ChĂątenay, Paris, France and was the nephew of the poet Su ...
Jules Girardet
Jules Girardet (10 April 1856, in Versailles â 25 January 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French painter and illustrator of Swiss ancestry.
Biography
He came from a Swiss Huguenot family. His father was the engraver, Paul Girardet.
He s ...
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Karl Girardet
Karl Girardet (born Charles Girardet; 7 May 1813, in Le Locle â 24 April 1871, in Versailles) was a Swiss painter and illustrator, who lived and worked mostly in Paris. After beginning his career as a landscape painter, he became a renowned his ...
EugĂšne Grasset
EugĂšne Samuel Grasset (25 May 1845 â 23 October 1917) was a Swiss decorative artist who worked in Paris, France in a variety of creative design fields during the Belle Ăpoque. He is considered a pioneer in Art Nouveau design.
Biography
G ...
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Albert Guillaume
Albert Guillaume (14 February 1873 â 10 August 1942) was a French painter and caricaturist.
Born in Paris, France, Albert Guillaume became a leading caricaturist during the Belle Ăpoque. While remembered for his poster art, Guillaume also di ...
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Dudley Hardy
Dudley Hardy Royal Institute of Oil Painters, ROI, Royal Society of British Artists, RBA (15 January 1867 â 11 August 1922), was an English painter and illustrator.
Life and work
Hardy was the eldest son of the marine painter Thomas Bush Har ...
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Charles Hoffbauer
Charles Constantin Joseph Hoffbauer (June 28, 1875 - July 26, 1957) was a French-born artist who became a United States citizen. He painted a wide variety of subjects, including many that depicted scenes of historical interest.
Early life and ed ...
Kupka Kupka is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* FrantiĆĄek Kupka (1871â1957), Czech painter and graphic artist
* Stephen Kupka
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Jules Laurens
Jules Joseph Augustin Laurens, commonly known as Jules Laurens, (26 July 1825, Carpentras - 5 May 1901, Saint-Didier, Vaucluse) was a French artist in drawing, painting, and lithography who is remembered above all for his orientalism, Oriental wo ...
Alfons Mucha
Alfons Maria Mucha (; 24 July 1860 â 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decora ...