Le Voleur (magazine)

During its existence, it had a variety of subtitles including Journal littéraire de Paris and Gazette des journaux français et étrangers.

The editorial of its first issue (5 April 1828) stated that each month 136 newspapers and magazines were published in Paris and Le Voleur would "pillage from whatever it could find.

The story was first published in France as a factual court case in the Gazette des Tribunaux on 23 October 1836.

The articles are thought to have inspired the fourteen-year-old Flaubert to write his first published short-story, "Bibliomanie" which appeared in the Rouen literary magazine Le Colibri in 1837.

[6][7][8] From 1829 to 1831 Balzac also worked as a journalist for the magazine as well as for two other publications owned by Lautour-Mézeray and Girardin–La Mode and La Silhouette.