title: L'Illustration
text: # L'Illustration
  
  L'Illustration was a weekly French newspaper published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, after 1906, the first international illustrated magazine; distributed in 150 countries.
  
  ## History
  
  In 1891, L'Illustration became the first French newspaper to publish a photograph. Many of these photographs came from syndicated photo-press agencies like Chusseau-Flaviens, but the publication also employed its own photographers such as Léon Gimpel and others. In 1907, L'Illustration was the first to publish a color photograph. It also published Gaston Leroux' novel Le mystère de la chambre jaune as a serial a year before its 1908 release. La Petite Illustration was the name of the supplement to L'Illustration that published fiction, plays, and other arts-related material.
  
  During the Second World War, while it was owned by the Baschet family, L'Illustration supported Marshal Philippe Pétain's Révolution nationale, but turned down pro-German articles by Jacques Bouly de Lesdain. However, Lesdain later became its political editor.
  
  The magazine was shut down in 1944 following the Liberation of Paris. Another version re-opened in 1945 under the name France-Illustration, but went bankrupt in 1957.
  
  ## Notable contributors
  
  ### Editor-in-chief
  
  * Gaston Sorbets (from 1923).
  
  ### Journalists
  
  * Gustave Babin
  
  ### Writers
  
  * Brada
  
  ### Notable photographers
  
  * Joshua Benoliel
  * Victor Bulla
  * Blanquart-Evrard
  * Brébisson
  * Disdéri
  * Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
  * Léon Gimpel
  * Jimmy Hare
  * Gustave Le Gray
  * Mayer et Pierson
  
  ### Notable illustrators (1843-1914)
  
  * Andriolli
  * Bertall
  * Pharamond Blanchard
  * Karl Bodmer
  * Joseph-Félix Bouchor
  * Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun
  * Eugène Burnand
  * Cami
  * Caran d'Ache
  * Cham
  * Henry Cheffer
  * Dagnan-Bouveret
  * Draner
  * Durand-Brager
  * Jules Férat
  * Forain
  * Gustave Fraipont
  * Gavarni
  * Henry Gerbault
  * Henri Gervex
  * Victor Gilbert
  * Jules Girardet
  * Karl Girardet
  * Grandville
  * Eugène Grasset
  * Albert Guillaume
  * Dudley Hardy
  * Charles Hoffbauer
  * Janet-Lange
  * Jeanniot
  * Lucien Jonas
  * Kupka
  * Jules Laurens
  * Charles Léandre
  * Lorsay
  * Louis Malteste
  * Malo-Renault
  * Alfons Mucha
  * Louis Rémy Sabattier
  * Georges Scott
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Former head office of L'Illustration in Paris, angle of rue Saint-Georges and rue de la Victoire
  * Wedding of Pedro V of Portugal (3 November 1860)
  * La Défense de Paris (28 July 1883)
  * Exposition Universelle (23 June 1900)
  * Louis Blériot (4 September 1909)
  * First World War 30 October 1915
  * General Henry Wilson (23 February 1918)
  * Funeral of King Sisowath (28 April 1928)
  * Allegory of France (11 May 1940)
  * Gençlik Park, Ankara (1951 Special edition)
  * Masthead (1864)
  