''Le Magasin pittoresque'' was a French magazine published from 1833 to 1938 and headquartered in Paris, France. It was the first illustrated magazine in the country.

History and profile

''Le Magasin pittoresque'' was launched in 1833. Its founder and editor was

Édouard Charton Édouard Charton (11 May 1807 – 27 February 1890) was an eminent French literary figure who was the founder and, for fifty-five years (1833–88), editor-in-chief of the publication '' Le Magazin pittoresque'', in addition to serving for thi ...

. The magazine was modeled on '' The Penny Magazine''. It was started as a weekly, but later its frequency was switched to bi-monthly and then to monthly. The magazine was headquartered in Paris, France. The topics covered included public administration, human and social sciences, urban planning, architecture, and civil engineering. In 1834, ''Le Magasin pittoresque'' published an article about an automaton, the

Mechanical Turk The Turk, also known as the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player (german: Schachtürke, ; hu, A Török), was a fraudulent chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854 it was ...

, created by Hungarian inventor Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen and reputed to play chess. The article was the first to expose the machine as a fake.

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