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L'Illustration

L'Illustration was a weekly French newspaper. It was founded by Edouard Charton; the first issue was published on March 4, 1843.

In 1891, L'Illustration became the first French newspaper to publish a photograph, and in 1907, the first to publish a color photograph. It also published Gaston Leroux' novel Le mystère de la chambre jaune as a serial a year before its 1908 release.

During the Second World War, L'Illustration was published by Jacques de Lesdain, a collaborator; after the Liberation of Paris, the newspaper was shut down. It re-opened in 1945 as France-Illustration, but went bankrupt in 1957.

References

• This article is based on the equivalent article in the French-language Wikipedia.

External links

• Archive of images that appeared in L'Illustration

Bibliography

• Marchandiau Jean-Noël, L'Illustration : vie et mort d'un journal, 1843-1944, Privat, Toulouse, 1987, 344 p. , Coll "Bibliothèque historique Privat"