Le Follet
Le Follet was a Parisian fashion magazine, published weekly from November 1829 to 1892.[1] It was at one point merged with Le Courrier de la Mode. It was richly illustrated with fashion plates.
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Le Follet belonged to the numerous fashion magazines which from the 1820s onward replaced the previous dominance of Journal des dames et des modes. It was a part of the great industry of French fashion magazines which competed which each other during the 19th-century, many of which became popular not only in France but also internationally. Le Follet belonged to the most successful of these magazines, and alongside its rival La Mode illustrée (1860-1937), Le Follet was particularly internationally successful, with many foreign subscribers in Great Britain and the United States. [2]
Le Follet was one of the oldest, most longlasting and most internationally famous Parisian fashion plate magazines, which makes it a valuable source of information[3] for researching the history of fashion.
References
- "The Inception of Ladies' Magazines in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries". The Victorian Omnibus. 21 July 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- Kate Nelson Best, The History of Fashion Journalism
- Sullerot, Evelyne (1966). Histoire de la presse féminine en France, des origines à 1848 (in French). A. Colin. p. 129.