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Year :
- Volume 67 - January/June 1876
- Volume 68 - July/December 1876
Adorned with 1600 vignettes.
Content: Uprising in Bulgaria against the Ottomans, bloodily repressed by the Turks (Batak massacre). - Famine in South India; more than 6 million people die of starvation or cholera. - Terrible storm that ravaged the regions of northern France and Hainaut - The Belgian strike of 1886, or social revolt of 1886. A wave of riots and insurrectionary workers' strikes in industrial Belgium. It is repressed in blood. - a.o.
Sections: Courrier de Paris - News from around the world - Fashions - Theaters - Fine Arts - The Salon of 1876 - a.o.
Condition: Cover: Damaged spine and slightly rubbed edges (see photos). Binding and interior in good condition.
L'Illustration is the first French news magazine entirely illustrated by the best designers of the moment and the best wood engravers. L'Illustration has innovated the journalistic approach: seeking information at the source and sending correspondents. The reader accesses the event through the documentary image. L'Illustration was almost always the first to report the news of the world, on the five continents. 67468421
