Lot# 7377
The 2026 June Auction - Sale 347 (June 20 - June 23, 2026) June 20 - June 23 2026, Hong Kong
Lot# 7377
Starting Price: 500 HK$
A group of three French illustrated newspaper supplements,
comprising an 1899 Le Petit Journal cover showing the assassination of two French officers at Kwangchow Wan, a 1900 Le Petit Parisien cover depicting the European Legations besieged in Peking during the Boxer period, and a 1901 Le Petit Parisien cover of a dynamite explosion at Cugny, all with striking colour front-page illustrations and reflecting French popular journalism on China and contemporary world events; toned, with edge tears and wear, still an attractive historical group.