''Les Soirées de Paris'' was a French literary and artistic review founded in February 1912 by

Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire (; ; born Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Poland, Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the ...

and four of his associates - André Billy, René Dalize,

André Salmon André Salmon (4 October 1881, Paris – 12 March 1969, Sanary-sur-Mer) was a French poet, art critic and writer. He was one of the early defenders of Cubism, with Guillaume Apollinaire and Maurice Raynal. Biography André Salmon was born i ...

, and . It was last published in August 1914. «Les Soirées de Paris»; numéro 1 (février 1912)

Contributors

Editors

* First series

; ; René Dalize ; André Billy ;

; Maurice de Waleffe ; Jacques Dyssord ; Charles Perrés; Marcel Duminy ; Roch Grey ; J. De L'esc ; Jérôme Tharaud ; Adolphe Paupe ; Eugène Montfort ; Fernand Divoire ; Tristan Derème ; Bernard Combette ; Marc Henry ; Peter Altember ; Borgne Le Crocheteur ; Henry Céard ; Adolphe Lacuzon ; Charles-Léon Bernardin ; Émile Zavie ; Francis Carco ; George Sabiron ; Doniazade ; Sébastien Voirol ; Vincent Muselli ; Émile Magne ; Jean Pellerin ; Maurice Raynal ; Jean Paulhan. * Second series

; Jean Cerusse ; André Billy ; Léonard Pieux ; Jacques Dyssord ;

Max Jacob Max Jacob (; 12 July 1876 – 5 March 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic. Life and career After spending his childhood in Quimper, Brittany, he enrolled in the Paris Colonial School, which he left in 1897 for an artistic c ...

; René Bizet ; René Dalize ; Roch Grey ; Émile Zavie ; Maurice Raynal ; Fernand Fleuret ; Horace Holley ; Gabrielle Buffet ; Mireille Havet; Jacques Dyssord ; André Dupont ; Dominique Combette ; Adolphe Basler ;

Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910)
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Gug ...

;

Edgard Varèse Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (; also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French and American composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm; h ...

; Fernand Divoire ;

Giovanni Papini Giovanni Papini (9 January 18818 July 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and Italian philosophy, philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he ...

; Harrison Reeve ; Henri Hertz ; Jean Le Roy ; Pierre Henner ; Louis Rive ; Paul Visconti ; Vincent Muselli ; Jean Royère ;

Blaise Cendrars Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars (), was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European ...

; Alberto Savinio ; Albert Haas ; Henri Strentz ; Guy-Pierre Fauconnet ;

Ambroise Vollard Ambroise Vollard (; 3 July 1866 – 21 July 1939) was a French art dealer who is regarded as one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art at the beginning of the twentieth century. He is credited with being a major supporter an ...

; Ardengo Soffici ;

Fernand Léger Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually ...

; O. -W. Gambedoo ; F. S. Flint ; Gabriel Arbouin ; Mireille Havet ; Léopold Sturzwage ;

Georges Rouault Georges-Henri Rouault (; 27 May 1871, Paris - 13 February 1958, Paris) was a French painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. Childhood and education Rouault was born into a poor famil ...

; Alan Seeger.

Illustrators

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

(No. 18); Marie Laurencin (No. 19);

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual arts, visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, ...

(No. 19, 24);

Jean Metzinger Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1 ...

(No. 19);

Albert Gleizes Albert Gleizes (; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on ...

(No. 19);

Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910)
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Gug ...

(No. 20);

André Derain André Derain (, ; 10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. In 2025, all of Derain’s work entered the public domain in the United States. Life and career Early ...

(No.21);

Francis Picabia Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typography, typographist closely associated with Dada. When consid ...

(No. 22);

Georges Braque Georges Braque ( ; ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century List of French artists, French painter, Collage, collagist, Drawing, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with ...

(No.23); Archipenko (No. 25);

(No. 26&27); Marius de Zayas (No. 26&27);

Maurice de Vlaminck Maurice de Vlaminck (; 4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were ...

(No. 26&27);

(No. 26&27).

References

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