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| Editor-in-chief | Édouard Charton |
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| Categories | Illustrated magazine |
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| Founder | Édouard Charton |
| Founded | 1833 (1833) |
| Final issue | 1938 |
| Country | France |
| Based in | 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.
History and profile
Le Magasin pittoresque was launched in 1833. Its founder and editor was Édouard Charton. The magazine was modeled on The Penny Magazine. It was started as a weekly, but later its frequency was switched to bi-monthly and then to monthly. The magazine was headquartered in Paris, France. The topics covered included public administration, human and social sciences, urban planning, architecture, and civil engineering.
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. The article was the first to expose the machine as a fake.
References
- ^ Brian Rigby (1995). "Magasin pittoresque, Le". In Peter France (ed.). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198661252.
- ^ "Le Magasin pittoresque" (in French). BnF Gallica. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- 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.
- "Automate Joueur D'échecs". Le Magasin pittoresque (in French). Paris. 1834. p. 155. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- 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.
External links
Media related to Le Magasin pittoresque at Wikimedia Commons
- 1833 establishments in France
- 1938 disestablishments in France
- Bi-monthly magazines published in France
- Defunct architecture magazines
- Defunct magazines published in Paris
- Defunct engineering magazines
- Defunct French-language magazines
- Magazines established in 1833
- Magazines disestablished in 1938
- Monthly magazines published in France
- Weekly magazines published in France