''L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux'' (, ), abbreviated as ''ICC'', is a monthly French

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topics. It focuses mainly on

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, and

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History

The magazine appeared from 1864 to 1940. Initially it focused on the arts and all sciences.Jesper Lützen, Around Caspar Wessel and the Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers: Proceedings of the Wessel Symposium at The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, August 11-15 1998
Invited Papers, 2001, It reappeared in April 1951, first under a slightly different name. A high-ranking official of Scottish origin, Charles Read, under the pseudonym of Carle de Rash, was the founder and the first director. He took as a model the

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, published in London, and based it on the same principle. Genealogical and nobility issues gained in importance following the reappearance in 1951. Since 1981 ICC is not published in September, i.e. the number of issues reduced from 12 to 11 per year.

Editors

* Octave Lebesgue (1900–1931) * Philippe du Puy de Clinchamps (1913–1971), founder of the new series in 1951 * Lucien Boisnormand * Patrice du Puy de Clinchamps, son of Philippe * Philippe Houël de Chaulieu * Charles-Henri de Sommyèvre

Other contributors

* Paul Masson, between 1879 and 1895 * Gustave Bord

Price

The ICC is sold by annual subscription: * 1985: 400 French francs * 1990: 485 French francs * 1995: 608 French francs * 2000: 635 French francs * 2012: 99 Euro

References

External links

L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, 1864-1937
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Gallica
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