La Petite Illustration was a weekly French literary journal. Being a supplement to L'Illustration 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,Margaret A. Simons (ed.) and Simone de Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophical Writings, University of Illinois Press, 2005, p. 74.Mary Louise Roberts, Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927 (Women in Culture & Society), University of Chicago Press, 1994, p. 305. novels and short stories often first publishing and containing illustrations. The headquarters of the magazine was in Paris.
The magazine has been noted that it published works on French Algeria.Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria (Society & Culture in the Modern Middle East), I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 1995, p. 312. It also covered articles on theatre.
Contributors included Marcel PagnolMaurice Bardeche, The History of Motion Pictures, 2007, p. 341. and Isabelle Sandy,La Petite Illustration, 25 May 1929, issue 431. 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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