Abstract
Travel-related periodicals in France appeared during the first decades of the 19th Century and multiplied in the shape of press that dedicated extensive space to travel narratives and which were considered valuable aids to scientific research, such as the Bulletin of the Geographic Society of Paris; and some others with a religious character like the Annales de la Propagation de la Foi, travel narratives presented as letters from traveling evangelizing missionaries; colonialist prints (Annales Maritimes et Coloniales); touristic, like the Indicateur des Chemins de Fer, and other publications that by the end of the 19th Century already came profusely illustrated and in which the traveler is a voyeur, a spectator who tells the readers about his experiences in faraway countries (Magasin Pittoresque). To sum up, there were periodicals regarding shipwrecks, sports, children's topics, etcetera, whose purpose was to educate through entertainment.