Revue des deux mondes
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French language
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monthly literary and cultural affairs magazine
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that has been published in Paris
Paris
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since 1829.
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
FIMALAC
FIMALAC is a French credit rating and risk management corporation.-Biography:FIMALAC was created by Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière in 1991. He serves as the CEO, and holds 100% of the shares of the Fimalac Group, that holds ~80% of Fimalac. It is headquartered in Paris...
Group.
History
The Revue des deux mondes was founded by Prosper Maurois and Ségur-Dupeyron, first appearing on 1 August 1829. The anodyne periodical with the subtitle Journal des voyages was purchased by a young printer, Auguste-Jean Auffray, who convinced his college roommate François BulozFrançois Buloz
François Buloz was a French littérateur, magazine editor, and theater administrator.He was born in Vulbens, Haute-Savoie, near Geneva, and died in Paris....
to edit it: quickly its original emphasis on travel and foreign affairs was shifted: according to its website, it was created in order to "establish a cultural, economic and political bridge between France
France
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and the United States
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", the Old World
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and the New
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. It was purchased in 1831 by Charles Buloz, who was its editor until 1877. Another influential editor in its history was Ferdinand Brunetière
Ferdinand Brunetière
Ferdinand Brunetière was a French writer and critic.-Early years:Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence. After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Desiring a teaching career, he entered for examination at the École Normale Supérieure, but failed, and the...
(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
Albert, 4th duc de Broglie
Jacques-Victor-Albert, 4th duc de Broglie was a French monarchist politician.-Biography:Albert de Broglie was born in Paris, France, the third child and eldest son of Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, a liberal statesman of the July Monarchy, and Albertine, baroness Staël von Holstein, the fourth child...
, François Guizot
François Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, a conservative liberal who opposed the attempt by King Charles X to usurp legislative power, and worked to sustain a constitutional...
, Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry
Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry
Augustin Thierry was a French historian.He was born in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, the elder brother of Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry. He had no advantages of birth or fortune, but was distinguished at the Blois Grammar School, and entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1811...
, Ludovic Vitet
Ludovic Vitet
Ludovic Vitet was a French dramatist and politician.He was born in Paris. He was educated at the École Normale. His politics were liberal, and he was a member of the society "Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera." On the triumph of liberal principles in 1830 Guizot created an office especially for Vitet,...
, Paul-François Dubois, the literary critics Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history.-Early years:...
and Gustave Plache, and Jean-Jacques Ampère
Jean-Jacques Ampère
Jean-Jacques Ampère was a French philologist and man of letters.Born in Lyon, he was the only son of the physicist André-Marie Ampère. Jean-Jacques' mother died while he was an infant....
.
Chief editors
- François BulozFrançois BulozFrançois Buloz was a French littérateur, magazine editor, and theater administrator.He was born in Vulbens, Haute-Savoie, near Geneva, and died in Paris....
, 1831-1877 - Charles Buloz, 1877-1893
- Ferdinand BrunetièreFerdinand BrunetièreFerdinand Brunetière was a French writer and critic.-Early years:Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence. After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Desiring a teaching career, he entered for examination at the École Normale Supérieure, but failed, and the...
, 1893-1906 - Francis CharmesFrancis CharmesMarie François, known as Francis Charmes was a French journalist, diplomat, civil servant, politician and academician. He was an Officer of the Légion d'honneur....
,1907-1915 - René DoumicRené DoumicRené Doumic , French critic and man of letters, was born in Paris, and after a distinguished career at the École Normale began to teach rhetoric at the College Stanislas....
, 1916-1937 - André ChaumeixAndré ChaumeixAndré Chaumeix was a French academician, journalist, and literary critic. He was the fourteenth member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1930....
, 1937-1955 - Claude-Joseph Gignoux, 1955-1966
- Jean Vigneau, 1966-1970
- Jean Jaudel, 1970-1991
- Jean Bothorel, 1991-1995
- Bruno de Cessole, 1995-1999
- Nathalie de Baudry d’Asson, 1999-2002
- Michel Crépu 2002-present
External links
- Revue des Deux Mondes (Corporate history in English)
- Revue des Deux Mondes on Wikisource
- Martin Kretzschmar, Die Deutschlandbilder der Zeitschriften La Revue des deux Mondes, Esprit und Documents, Revue des questions allemandes 1945-1999, doct. diss. Ruprecht-Karl-Universität Heidelberg, 2002 (in German)