''Le Petit Français illustré'' was a French newspaper for schoolchildren established in 1889, consisting mainly of soap-opera-like stories ("

feuilleton A ''feuilleton'' (; a diminutive of french: feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art critici ...

s"). From its beginnings through 1904, it featured a number of

bandes dessinées Bandes may refer to: * BANDES, The Venezuelan Economic and Social Development Bank * Susan Bandes, American lawyer * Efim Samuilovich Bandes (1866–1927), Russian-Jewish political activist, known in the United States as Louis Miller {{dis ...

(comic strips) by France's pioneering comic artist

Georges Colomb Marie-Louis-Georges Colomb (Lure, Haute-Saône, 25 May 1856 – Nyons, 3 January 1945) was a French botanist, science populariser, and a pioneer of French comics, known as '' bandes dessinées ''. Under the pseudonym Christophe (playing on "Chr ...

(under the pseudonym "Christophe"), which were popular with educated adults as well as children. Artists such as

Albert Robida Albert Robida (14 May 1848 – 11 October 1926) was a French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist. He edited and published '' La Caricature'' magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s, he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of fut ...

contributed.

External links

''Le Petit Français illustré''
online in Gallica, the digital library of the BnF. 1889 establishments in France Newspapers established in 1889 Children's literature organizations Comics magazines published in France Children's magazines published in France Defunct newspapers published in France {{child-lit-stub