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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 |
| 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. [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]
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Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, also known as F. E. Guerin, was a French entomologist.
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