Three Generations of Illustrated Press in the 19th Century

Searching for Patterns
By Jean-Pierre Bacot
English

THREE GENERATIONS OF ILLUSTRATED PRESS IN THE 19TH CENTURY Research in pattern-ity

The first three generations of French illustrated magazines were successively marked by the birth of Magasin Pittoresque (1833), Illustration (1843) and Journal Illustr? (1864) - three titles which, along with their rivals, were a variation on the British model. This article investigates the conditions of the appearance of these "patterns" and of their diffusion in Europe. It also aims to show the gradual expansion of readership of the illustrated press. It was only with the birth of the weekly Le Journal Illustr?, linked to the daily Le Petit Journal, that news plates were offered to a working-class public. This was a forgotten time in the history of the press which also marked the end of a set of shared European representations built up by previous generations for a bourgeois readership.

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