The Little Echo of Fashion: A Century of Women's Press

The history of the Little Echo of Fashion is part of a century that is crucial for understanding the rise of women's media. During the adventure of this general newspaper, Châtelaudren la Bretonne and Paris, the capital of elegance, rub shoulders against a backdrop of moral values ​​in order to fulfill - according to its founder - an "educational mission" for women. Fashion, the life of the bourgeois woman, the rites of individual and collective existence, advertising. All these mysteries are codes delivered to the readership of this bygone era that nevertheless continues to illuminate our own with its ruptures and continuities.

This publishing phenomenon, fueled by the creative inventiveness of men and women of taste, paved the way for women's magazines dedicated to the world of women. Today, on the initiative of the Leff community of communes, the building that housed one of the printing works of the Little Echo of Fashion, finally finds a new life with a cultural and friendly dimension, to forever engrave the memory of this highly original story.