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L'Illustration
''L'Illustration'' (; 1843–1944) was a French language, French illustrated weekly newspaper published in Paris. It was founded by Édouard Charton 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. Many of these photographs came from syndicated photo-press agencies like Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, Chusseau-Flaviens, but the publication also employed its own photographers such as Léon Gimpel and others. In 1907, ''L'Illustration'' was the first to publish a color photography, ''color'' photograph. It also published Gaston Leroux' novel ''Le mystère de la chambre jaune'' as a Serial (literature), serial a year before its 1908 release. ''La Petite Illustration'' was the name of the supplement to ''L'Illustration'' that published fiction, plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Bouly De Lesdain
Jacques Bouly de Lesdain (4 October 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-Freemasonry conferences during World War II. Early life Jacques Bouly de Lesdain was born on 4 October 1880. He graduated from Sciences Po and received a bachelor's degree in Laws. He was a count. Career Bouly de Lesdain was a lawyer and diplomat. He was the author of books about Mongolia and Tibet, based on his travelling experiences. For example, he had led an expedition in the Gobi Desert in 1902. He also published several books about Germany, including ''La Seconde paix'', a 1931 treatise in which he called for closer Franco-German relations under the pseudonym of "Esdalin". By the 1930s, he joined the Dunkirk chapter of the Action Française. Bouly de Lesdain joined ''L'Illustration'' as a contributor based in Basel, Switz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Charton
Édouard Charton (; 11 May 1807 – 27 February 1890) was a French literary figure who founded the magazine ''Le Magasin pittoresque,'' and served as its editor-in-chief for fifty-five years (1833–88). He also served as director of publication of the French publisher Hachette (publishing), Hachette for thirty years (1860–90). Biography Édouard Charton was born in Sens, Bourgogne and received a lawyer degree at 20 years old. Two years later, between 1829 and 1831, he became a traveling propagator for the social philosophy of Saint-Simonianism, Saint-Simonism, using his oratorical skills to promote the cause. However, this ultimately resulted in disappointment for him. In his mid-forties, Charton entered politics and served in the National Assembly of France as a Deputy and Senator. There, he expressed his convictions, which were influenced by the Age of Enlightenment and included faith in progress and the emancipation of people through education. Charton also advocated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Gimpel
L̩on Gimpel (13 May 1873 Р7 October 1948) was a French photographer. Born in Strasbourg in 1873. He was the youngest son of four, born to a Jewish Alsacian family who fled to Paris after Germany took over Alsace in 1870. Gimpel worked for his family's fabric company, managed by his older brother Eugene. In 1897 his interest in photography was kindled when he acquired a Kodak detective camera, he soon swapped this for a Spido Gaumont which allowed him greater creative freedom. By 1900 he was working prodigiously, documenting the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. By 1904 his work was being published regularly in the magazines ''La Vie au Grand Air'', ''La Vie Illustr̩e'' and ''L'Illustration''. A restless and innovative photographer, Gimpel experimented with perspective, produced self-portraits using distorting mirrors and experimented with night time photography. At an air show at B̩th̩ny in August 1909, Gimpel ascended in an air ballon to photograph the crowds below, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustave Babin
Gustave Babin (8 July 1865 – Casablanca 1939) was a French journalist and art critic. Much of his work was published in ''L'Illustration'' (1893 to 1923) and ''Journal des débats''. He was a friend of Paul Armand Silvestre who introduced him to the cinema. This led him to write an article in 1908 in which he discussed the excitement which various contemporary painters felt as regards the new medium. Also that year he had an article published in ''Scientific American'' dealing with "The making of Moving Pictures: How Their Fantastic Effects are Obtained". During the First World War Babin was a war correspondent for ''L'Illustration''. His account of the Foreign Legion (''L'Illustration'' 19 Jan 1918) was translated into English as ''The Legion'' and published in 1918. He moved to Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Mystère De La Chambre Jaune
''The Mystery of the Yellow Room'' (in French ''Le mystère de la chambre jaune'') is a mystery fiction, 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 ''L'Illustration'' from September 1907 to November 1907, then in its own right in 1908 in literature, 1908. It is the first novel starring fictional reporter Joseph Rouletabille and concerns a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room. Leroux provides the reader with detailed, precise diagrams and floorplans illustrating the crime scene. The story provides an intellectual challenge to the reader. The novel finds its continuation in the 1908 novel ''The Perfume of the Lady in Black (novel), The Perfume of the Lady in Black'', wherein a number of the character (arts), characters familiar from this story reappear. Plot summary Reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 supplement to ''L'Illustration'' and published plays, novels and short stories often first publishing and containing illustrations. The headquarters of the magazine was in Paris. The magazine has been noted that it published works on French Algeria. It also covered articles on theatre. Contributors included Marcel Pagnol and Isabelle Sandy Isabelle Sandy (a pseudonym; 15 June 1884, Cos, Ariège – 8 May 1975) was a French poet, writer and radio presenter, best known for her French literary regionalism, regionalism.Frédérique Chevillot, Anna Norris, ''Des femmes écrivent la guer ..., among others. ''La Petite Illustration'' ceased publication on 26 August 1939. It was replaced by another theatrical journal, '' L'avant-scène théâtre''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Chusseau-Flaviens
Charles Chusseau-Flaviens (13 February 1866 – 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, based in Paris. Chusseau-Flaviens' by-line appeared on numerous photographs from all over Europe as well as from Africa, the Middle East, the Far East and North America. Subject matters included formal and informal portraits of European royalty, political figures and celebrities in addition to scenes of daily life. According to researchers, no biographical information about Chusseau-Flaviens is known. A substantial portion of his photographic collection, represented by nearly 11,000 glass negatives, was donated by Kodak Pathé to the George Eastman House (GEH) International Museum of Photography and Film in 1974. GEH noted that Chusseau-Flaviens also acquired copies of photographs from other photographers, annotating their names on his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brada (writer)
Henrietta Consuelo Sansom, Countess of Quigini Puliga (24 April 1847 – 5 August 1938) was a French writer and novelist known better by the pseudonym, Brada, a shortened version of her earlier pen name, Bradamente. She also wrote on occasion as Mosca. In 1925, she was appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. The Académie Française awarded her the Montyon Prize in 1890, the Jouy Prize in 1895, and the Xavier Marmier Prize in 1934. Early life and education Henrietta (also known as, "Marie") Consuelo Sansom was born 24 April 1847, in Paris. She was the daughter of a wealthy British expatriate, Charles Sansom. Brada spent most of her childhood boarding in a girls' private school located near the Arc de Triomphe. Being born out of wedlock, she found herself destitute upon the death of her father, whose inheritance was shared by his legitimate children. Career In 1868, she married an Italian count twenty years her senior, Efisio Quigini Puliga (1827-1876),''La Formazione del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Benoliel
Joshua Benoliel (13 January 1873 – 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 trader, and Esther Levy. Career He started working as a photojournalist for sports magazine '' Tiro e Sport'', in which his first photograph was published, but most of his career was in the Portuguese newspaper '' O Século'' and its supplement '' Ilustração Portuguesa''. He was also the Portuguese correspondent of Spanish newspaper ''ABC'' and French magazine ''L'Illustration''. Benoliel covered the main events in Portuguese history during the early decades of the 20th century, including the downfall of monarchy and the Portuguese participation in World War I in Flanders. Until its overthrow, the Royal Family invited him to be the official photographer on their travels. However, when asked, "are you a royalist or a republican?" he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Bulla
Carl Oswald Bulla or Karl Karlovich Bulla (; 26 February 1855 in Encyclopedia Peoples.ru or 1853 article on Artproject.ru – 28 November 1929) was a German-Russian photographer, often referred to as the "father of Russian photo-reporting".''Karl Bulla: The Father of Russian Photo-reporting'' "Глаза и уши Петербурга", 2004 Biography Carl Oswald Bulla was born in Leobschütz in Prussia (now Głubczyce, Poland). His exact birth year is unclear with some references citing 1853[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (2 August 1802 – 28 April 1872) was a French inventor, photographer and photo publisher. Being a cloth merchant by trade, in the 1840s he developed interest in photography and focused on technical and economical issues of mass production of photo prints. Biography He was born and raised in Lille where he studied chemistry with Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann and miniature painting on porcelain.Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography: A-I Volume 1, edited by John Hannavy. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2007, pp. 167–168. After |
Peter I Of Serbia
Peter I (; – 16 August 1921) was King of Serbia from 15 June 1903 to 1 December 1918. On 1 December 1918, he became King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and he held that title until his death three years later. Since he was the king of Serbia during a period of great Serbian military success, he was remembered by Serbians as King Peter the Liberator and also as the Old King. Peter was the fifth child and third son of Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, and his wife, Persida Nenadović. Prince Alexander was forced to abdicate in 1858, and Peter lived with his family in exile. He fought with the French Foreign Legion in the Franco-Prussian War. He joined as a volunteer under the alias Peter Mrkonjić ( sr-Cyrl, Петар Мркоњић, Petar Mrkonjić) in the Herzegovina uprising (1875–1877) against the Ottoman Empire. In 1883, Prince Peter married Princess Ljubica, daughter of King Nicholas I of Montenegro. Ljubica became known as Princess Zorka upon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
