L'Illustration

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L'Illustration from June 23, 1900

L'Illustration was a French weekly newspaper that appeared from March 4, 1843 to 1944.

It was founded in Paris by the journalists Édouard Charton, Jacques-Julien Dubochet , Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Paulin, the geographer Adolphe Joanne and the publisher Jean-Jacques Dubochet . The latter became its first editor-in-chief and publisher. A total of 5293 issues with around 180,000 pages appeared. L'Illustration is one of the earliest illustrated magazines and newspapers, comparable to The Illustrated London News, founded a year earlier, and the Leipziger Illustrirten Zeitung , which had almost the same publication time. In 1891, L'Illustration published a photograph for the first time in France.

During the Second World War , the newspaper continued to appear after the German occupation . After the liberation in 1944 , the paper was banned due to the collaboration of its boss Jacques de Lesdain. After its re-publication in 1945 under the title France-Illustration , the newspaper was finally discontinued in 1955.

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