Unknown: Le Petit Journal, issue of July 16, 1911

 

(Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France)

A drawing made by an unknown French artist. Le Petit Journal was a conservative daily French newspaper. The first issue of the Journal appeared on February 1, 1863, and starting in 1884 an illustrated weekly Sunday supplement was introduced - Le Petit Journal illustré. This page is from the issue of July 16, 1911, and shows a crowd in Amsterdam awaiting the arrival of the French president Armand Fallières. Armand Fallières made a state visit to the Netherlands in July 1911, where he was received by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. Illustration of 1911.