"L'Illustration" - Année 1938 - Aug/December

L'ILLUSTRATION: 5293 numbers - more than 180.000 pages - several million photographs,
autochromes, drawings, original paintings - a memory of national and international history
from 1843 to 1956. Here is the 1938 year, from August to December [see HERE for January
to July].









The last édition of December 1938, with an editorial by Georges Duhamel
from the Académie Française on 'The Duties of Intelligence'... a text still
relevant nowadays!


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"L'Illustration" - Année 1938 - January/July

Throughout a century - from 1843 to 1944 - from the July Monarchy until the end
of the French Third Republic, "L'Illustration", the first illustrated weekly in French,
has been the mirror of all the major events and daily life, in France and worldwide.
["L'ILLUSTRATION", official site].

The first edition of January 1938 - the 96th year since the birth of the magazine - highlights
a British-Japanese meeting in Shanghai , on the site where a grenade, launched by a Chinese
student, exploded.











[Click HERE for August to December 1938].

"L'illustration" is the first title of the French press to have used photography in a systematic
way since the late nineteenth century.
The magazine was recognized as a national treasury by the French State, for the extent and
the richness of its worldwide events' coverage.

Check out "L'ILLUSTRATION, or the Memory of a Century", a documentary by René-Jean
Bouyer about the magazine history [from the official site].
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"L'Illustration" - Année 1937

Unfortunately, the collection is far from complete, but these cover pictures
of L'ILLUSTRATION suggest the climate of 1937 and the years to come.









[:o) Merci papà d'avoir préservé tout ça].
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Founded by Edouard Charton, L'Illustration was a weekly French newspaper
published in Paris from 1843 to 1944.
In 1891, L'Illustration was the first French newspaper to publish a photograph and,
in 1907, the first to publish a color photograph.
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.
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* Read a more detailed article on French Wikipedia, (if you are familiar with French).


"L'ILLUSTRATION, or the Memory of a Century", by René-Jean Bouyer,
a documentary on the magazine, from the official site.
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