Le Monde illustré was a leading illustrated news magazine in France which was published from 1857–1940 and again from 1945 to 1956. It was in many ways similar to its contemporary English-language new
Election de la Reine des Blanchisseuses au lavoir de la rue neuve Saint-Médard, Jules Férat, 1866.
Bal des folles 22 March 1890, José Belon
Saigō Takamori (seated, in Western uniform), surrounded by his officers, in samurai attire. News article in Le Monde illustré, 1877.
Wedding of Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden 1881
Crimes de la Commune is a series of photomontages produced by French photographer Ernest-Charles Appert at the end of the Paris Commune. A Parisian photographer accredited to the Tribunal de la Seine,
Massacre of dominicans in Arcueil, photomontage, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Siège of Paris, Bondy's outpost, December 20, 1870. Musée Carnavalet.
Execution of Rossel, Bourgeois and Ferré, November 28, 1871 at Satory. Albumen print, Paris, Musée Carnavalet.
Charles Simon Mayer, Major Commandant of the Place Vendôme.