Le Magasin pittoresque
Editor-in-chiefÉdouard Charton
CategoriesIllustrated magazine
Frequency
  • Weekly
  • Bi-monthly
  • Monthly
FounderÉdouard Charton
Founded1833 (1833)
Final issue1938
CountryFrance
Based inParis
LanguageFrench

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.[1]

History and profile

Le Magasin pittoresque was launched in 1833.[2] Its founder and editor was Édouard Charton.[1][2] The magazine was modeled on The Penny Magazine.[3] It was started as a weekly, but later its frequency was switched to bi-monthly and then to monthly.[2] The magazine was headquartered in Paris, France.[2] The topics covered included public administration, human and social sciences, urban planning, architecture, and civil engineering.[2]

In 1834, Le Magasin pittoresque published an article about an automaton, the Mechanical Turk, created by Hungarian inventor Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen and reputed to play chess.[4] The article was the first to expose the machine as a fake.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Brian Rigby (1995). "Magasin pittoresque, Le". In Peter France (ed.). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198661252.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Le Magasin pittoresque" (in French). BnF Gallica. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  3. ↑ Andrew King (2008). "Magazines, History of". In Wolfgang Donsbach (ed.). The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Vol. VI. Malden, MA: Blackwell. p. 2749. doi:10.1002/9781405186407.wbiecm002. ISBN 9781405131995.
  4. ↑ "Automate Joueur D'échecs". Le Magasin pittoresque (in French). Paris. 1834. p. 155. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  5. ↑ Rob Saunders; et al. (2010). Curious Whispers: An Embodied Artificial Creative System. Lisbon, Portugal: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity. p. 101. ISBN 9789899600126.
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