''La Petite Illustration'' was a weekly French literary

journal A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of personal secretive thoughts and as open book to personal therapy or used to feel connected to onesel ...

. Being a supplement to ''

L'Illustration ''L'Illustration'' (; 1843–1944) was a French language, French illustrated weekly newspaper published in Paris. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in ...

'' it existed between 1913 and 26 August 1939.

History and profile

''La Petite Illustration'' was founded in 1913. It was a newspaper supplement to ''L'Illustration'' and published plays, novels and short stories often first publishing and containing illustrations. The headquarters of the magazine was in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

. The magazine has been noted that it published works on

French Algeria French Algeria ( until 1839, then afterwards; unofficially ; ), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of History of Algeria, Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France. French rule lasted until ...

. It also covered articles on theatre. Contributors included

Marcel Pagnol Marcel Paul Pagnol (, also ; ; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the . Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's ...

and

Isabelle Sandy Isabelle Sandy (a pseudonym; 15 June 1884, Cos, Ariège – 8 May 1975) was a French poet, writer and radio presenter, best known for her French literary regionalism, regionalism.Frédérique Chevillot, Anna Norris, ''Des femmes écrivent la guer ...

, among others. ''La Petite Illustration'' ceased publication on 26 August 1939. It was replaced by another theatrical journal, '' L'avant-scène théâtre''.Peter Nagy (ed.), Philippe Rouyer (ed.), ''The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe v.1: Europe Vol 1 (World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre)''
Routledge, 1994, p. 322.

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