- La Petite Illustration
La Petite Illustration was a weekly French literary
journal in the 1920s and 1930s. It published plays [Margaret A.Simons (ed.) and Simone de Beauvoir, "Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophical Writings", University of Illinois Press, 2005, page 74 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FoOLjuTTaz4C&pg=PA74&dq=%22la+petite+illustration%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U2Ltv0z9Px_GHJZf351Na7v2_Dw1w] ] [Mary Louise Roberts, "Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927 (Women in Culture & Society)", University of Chicago Press, 1994, page 305 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5JUvED7jkXEC&pg=PA305&dq=%22la+petite+illustration%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U1VhdvOdsd_DaroN5goRXSYm0Gjbw] ] , novels and short stories, often with illustrations.Overview
It 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, page 312 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d1c-J_IfSEQC&pg=PA312&dq=%22la+petite+illustration%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U2ztOTTjOO-gw2NpgPQ_OsDx_PRvg] ] .Contributors included
Marcel Pagnol [Maurice Bardeche, "The History of Motion Pictures", 2007, page 341 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5gnbXkgUyssC&pg=RA1-PA341&dq=%22la+petite+illustration%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U2Q2T-Vwa7UH8_9lIwGpmRhxQaUrA] ] andIsabelle Sandy ["La Petite Illustration", 25 Mai 1929, issue 431] , among others.It was later 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, page 322 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=B9RV5UFtPNMC&pg=PA322&dq=%22la+petite+illustration%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U0iPsBVCjs0154KdUB4sJCpa7kCUQ] ] .
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