Editor: | Édouard Charton |
Editor Title: | Editor-in-chief |
Category: | Illustrated magazine |
Founder: | Édouard Charton |
Finaldate: | 1938 |
Country: | France |
Based: | Paris |
Language: | French |
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]
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]