was a weekly magazine published in Paris from 1861 to 1863.
It was founded and directed by Étienne Carjat and its first issue came out on December 1, 1861. Each issue included a Parisian column, a serialized story, and musical and gossip columns. It was printed on 8 large folio pages, 43–49 cm high,Catalog record at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France illustrated with two portraits.Jahn Hannavy, ed., Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, 2008, , 1:273 The editor was .
Among the contributors to were Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Champfleury, Jules Verne, Léon Cladel, and Honoré Daumier. The magazine dared to be critical of the government, notably publishing extracts from Hugo's Les Misérables in 1862.
The last issue was published on June 14, 1863. The end of the magazine was also financially disastrous for Carjat.
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