The illustrated press, first considered as 'useful knowledge'? of an encyclopaedic nature, was born in England in 1832 with Penny Magazine which created a predominantly educational model that excluded news and was copied in Western Europe. It was only in the following decade, with the London Illustrated News, that another type of magazine included illustrated journalistic news, in the same European space, but with points of view that had become hostile. With the Crimean War, a veritable geopolitical issue was constructed in a nationalistic perspective that destroyed what had previously been created as a European imaginary space. This phenomenon culminated shortly before the turn of the century, notably with engravings in the Le Petit Journal. A memorial logic was simultaneously established, starting with the attitude of L'Illustration in 1848.