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Images from La Vie Parisienne (Paris Life), edited by Marcelin. This was a weekly society paper. I have 1863, 1864 and 1865 all bound together. Later the magazine became known for saucy pictures of women. It continued publication from 1863 up to 1970.
The cover of each issue says La Vie Parisienne edited by Marcelin: Elegant Manners Current Events - Fantasies - Travel Theater - Music Fashion
One issue every Saturday.
Subscriptions begin on the 1st of each month.
Offices: 9 Place de la Bourse.
Single issue sales: Defaux, 8 rue du Croissant.
Today the site seems to be occupied by Avence France-Presse, who have been there since 1835 it seems, when it was called Havas.
Title: La Vie Parisienne
Editor: Marcelin
Published by: Marcelin
City: Paris
Date: 1863
Total items: 5
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Thomas William Crackfort is cut into six pieces]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marcelin-LaVieParisienne-1863/wm/big/572-cut-into-six-pieces-q75-94x200.jpg "[picture: Thomas William Crackfort is cut into six pieces]")
Thomas William Crackfort is cut into six pieces
A man, or possibly a marionette or puppet, hangs by the head from a bolt fastened to a wall above, various body parts loose showing the wire or string that connected them. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Haunted Chest of Drawers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marcelin-LaVieParisienne-1863/wm/big/572-the-sneezing-chest-of-drawers-q70-172x200.jpg "[picture: Haunted Chest of Drawers]")
At first I thought this chest of drawers was a robot, although in 1865 that seemed unlikely. It has a face made from places where there would normally be drawers: two eyes and a mouth, and a nose and maybe moustache and eyebrows have appeared. The drawers are flying through the air towards the spectators, one of whom has rabbit ears, another [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: He blew out his lantern]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marcelin-LaVieParisienne-1863/wm/big/571-blew-out-his-lantern-q75-128x200.jpg "[picture: He blew out his lantern]")
A man with a large nose and a top hat and a wand is blowing at the flame in a lantern that he holds in one hand. [$]
![[picture: Border with cherubs, arrow piercing hearts, flowers and leaves]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marcelin-LaVieParisienne-1863/wm/big/524-cherub-border-1-q85-750x237.jpg "[picture: Border with cherubs, arrow piercing hearts, flowers and leaves]")
Border with cherubs, arrow piercing hearts, flowers and leaves
This top-piece is a sketch-like drawing from a double-page spread in an article about an English couple visiting France. We see two winged cherubs standing facing one another either side of a pediment on which rests an arrow pierving two hearts. The boys have loin-cloths. One is carrying perhaps a stick, the other holding a bow. The festoons that curve [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: The Spirits]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marcelin-LaVieParisienne-1863/wm/big/571-spirits-banner-q75-487x200.jpg "[picture: The Spirits]")
We see a heading, Les Spirites (the spirists), drawn as if from the back of a stage or platform in a dimly-lit room or theatre. There’s a large audience, but on stage maybe half a dozen people kneeling on either side of a table with a drawer, facing the table, on which are dancing three giant beetles with antlers, one [...] [more...] [$]
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