Revue des deux Mondes

Revue des deux Mondes
DisciplineLiterature, history, art and science
LanguageFrench
Edited bySociété de la Revue des Deux Mondes
Publication details
History1829–present
FrequencyMonthly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Rev. Deux Mondes
Indexing
ISSN0035-1962
OCLC no.476419311
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The Revue des deux Mondes (French: [ʁəvy de dø mɔ̃d], Review of the Two Worlds) is a monthly French-language literary, cultural and current affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829.[1]

According to its website, "it is today the place for debates and dialogues between nations, disciplines and cultures, about the major subjects of our societies". The main shareholder is Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière's FIMALAC Group.

History

The Revue des deux Mondes was founded by Prosper Mauroy and Pierre de Ségur-Dupeyron, first appearing on 1 August 1829. It began when an anodyne periodical, Journal des voyages, was purchased by the young printer Auguste-Jean Auffray, who convinced his college roommate François Buloz to edit it. Its original emphasis on travel and foreign affairs soon shifted;[2] according to its website, it was created to "establish a cultural, economic and political bridge between France and the United States", the Old World and the New.[a] It was purchased in 1831 by François Buloz, who was its editor until 1877, when Charles Buloz took over direction. Another influential editor was Ferdinand Brunetière (after 1893).

Among the early regular contributors who established the review's reputation as an elite liberal vehicle of haute culture were Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, François Guizot, Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry, Ludovic Vitet, Paul-François Dubois [fr], the literary critics Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Gustave Planche, and Jean-Jacques Ampère.[2][3]

Heinrich Heine first published an essay in three parts in 1834, De l'Allemagne depuis Luther, a history of emancipation in Germany beginning with the Reformation.[4] Stendhal published his novella Mina de Vinghel in the magazine.[citation needed] George Sand also serialized her novel Mauprat in the magazine in 1837.[5] Marguerite-Hélène Mahé serialised her novel Sortilèges créoles: Eudora ou l'île enchantée (fr), describing slavery in Réunion.[6] A later contributor was Hippolyte Taine.

Chief editors

Notes

  1. ^ This bridge may explain Wallace Stevens's reference to the Revue in his poem Colloquy with a Polish Aunt.

References

  1. ^ de Broglie, Gabriel (1979). Histoire politique de la "Revue des deux mondes." (in French). Paris: Perrin. ISBN 2-262-00147-2.
  2. ^ a b Guthrie, Christopher E. (January–March 1984). "The "Revue des Deux Mondes" and Imperial Russia, 1855-1917". Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique. 25 (1): 93–111.
  3. ^ Furman, Nelly (1975). La "Revue des deux mondes" et le Romantisme: (1831-1848) (in French). Geneva: Librairie Droz. ISBN 978-2-600-03541-5.
  4. ^ Goetschel, Willi (28 January 2007). "Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland [On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany]" (PDF). The Literary Encyclopedia. University of Toronto.
  5. ^ Sicard, Claude (1968). "La genèse de Mauprat. Remarques sur le manuscrit du roman" [The genesis of Mauprat: Remarks on the manuscript of the novel]. Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France (in French). 68 (5). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France: 782–797. JSTOR 40523375. Mauprat parut dans la Revue des Deux Mondes les 1er avril, 15 avril, 1er mai et 1er juin 1837, avant d'être mis en vente, en deux volumes in-8°, chez Félix Bonnaire, le 7 août de la même année. [Mauprat appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes on 1 April, 15 April, 1 May and 1 June 1837, before being put on sale, in two volumes in-8°, by Félix Bonnaire, on 7 August of the same year.]
  6. ^ Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo, Valérie; Marimoutou, Carpanin (2006). Le champ littéraire réunionnais en questions (in French). Economica. ISBN 978-2-7178-5170-0.