''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.

History and profile

''Le Magasin pittoresque'' was launched in 1833. Its founder and editor was

Édouard Charton Édouard Charton (; 11 May 1807 – 27 February 1890) was a French literary figure who founded the magazine ''Le Magasin pittoresque,'' and served as its editor-in-chief for fifty-five years (1833–88). He also served as director of publicat ...

. The magazine was modeled on ''

The Penny Magazine ''The Penny Magazine'' was an illustrated British magazine aimed at the working class, published every Saturday from 31 March 1832 to 31 October 1845. Charles Knight (publisher), Charles Knight created it for the Society for the Diffusion of Use ...

''. It was started as a weekly, but later its frequency was switched to bi-monthly and then to monthly. The magazine was headquartered in Paris, France. The topics covered included public administration, human and social sciences,

urban planning Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...

, architecture, and civil engineering. In 1834, ''Le Magasin pittoresque'' published an article about an automaton, the

Mechanical Turk The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player (, ; ), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing Chess engine, machine constructed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human oppone ...

, created by Hungarian inventor Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen and reputed to play chess. The article was the first to expose the machine as a fake.

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