La Vie Parisienne ran from 1863 to 1970, and for much of that time it was the most visually adventurous magazine in France. It built its reputation on witty, often risqué illustration of Parisian social life, drawing on artists who treated the weekly cover as a serious creative assignment. The work that came out of that tradition captures a particular French sensibility, glamorous and slightly irreverent, that defined how the Belle Époque and Art Deco periods saw themselves. The pieces shown here are period originals.