Le Magasin pittoresque was a French magazine published from 1833 to 1938 and headquartered in Paris, France.

[1] Le Magasin pittoresque was launched in 1833.

[3] It was started as a weekly, but later its frequency was switched to bi-monthly and then to monthly.

[2] The topics covered included public administration, human and social sciences, urban planning, architecture, and civil engineering.

[2] In 1834, Le Magasin pittoresque published an article about an automaton, the Mechanical Turk, created by Hungarian inventor Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen and reputed to play chess.