Victor Arwas
La Vie Parisienne
Papadakis Publisher, Berkshire UK 2010
160 pages, numerous b&w and cororized images
English language
This is a beautiful illustrated book about the well known French weekly magazine, first published in 1863 and continued until 1970.
Famous artists of the Belle Epoque, Art Nouveau and Art Deco era, i.e. Georges Léonnec, Chéri Hérouard, Raphael Kirchner, Fabien Fabiano, Maurice Milliere, Suzanne Meunier, Albert Joseph Pénot, or Vald'Es contributed numerous illustrations for this magazine. The topics were mainly theater, art, sports, fashion and novels. In 1905 under the new editor Charles Saglio the the magazine changed to a more risque style.
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