The ''Revue des deux Mondes'' (, ''Review of the Two Worlds'') is a monthly French-language literary, cultural and current affairs magazine that has been published in Paris 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
Marc Eugène Charles Ladreit de Lacharrière (born November 6, 1940) is the CEO of FIMALAC (a.k.a. Financière Marc de Lacharrière), once majority owner of credit rating agency Fitch Group from which it divested between 2015 and 2018, selling it ...
's
FIMALAC
FIMALAC (known as Financière Marc de Lacharrière) is a French holding company focusing on credit rating and risk management companies. It manages commercial real estate through North Colonnade Ltd, and private equity funds through its subsidiar ...
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
François Buloz (20 September 1803 – 12 January 1877) was a French ''littérateur'', magazine editor, and theater administrator.
He was born in Vulbens, Haute-Savoie, near Geneva, and died in Paris.
Originally employed as a chemist, ...
to edit it. Its original emphasis on travel and foreign affairs soon shifted;
according to its website, it was created to "establish a cultural, economic and political bridge between France and the United States", the
Old World
The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe , after Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas. It is used to contrast the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia, which were previously thought of by the ...
and the
New
New is an adjective referring to something recently made, discovered, or created.
New or NEW may refer to:
Music
* New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz
Albums and EPs
* ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013
* ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator ...
. 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
Ferdinand Brunetière (19 July 1849 – 9 December 1906) was a French writer and critic.
Personal and public life
Early years
Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence. After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-G ...
(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
Jacques-Victor-Albert, 4th duc de Broglie (; 13 June 182119 January 1901) was a French monarchist politician, diplomat and writer (of historical works and translations).
Broglie twice served as Prime Minister of France, first from May 1873 to ...
,
François Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (; 4 October 1787 – 12 September 1874) 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 a ...
,
Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry
Augustin Thierry (or ''Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry''; 10 May 179522 May 1856) was a French historian. Although originally a follower of Henri de Saint-Simon, he later developed his own approach to history. A committed liberal, his approach ...
,
Ludovic Vitet
Ludovic Vitet (18 October 18025 June 1873) was a French dramatist and politician.
Early life and career
Ludovic Vitet was born in Paris. He came from a wealthy bourgeois family, as the grandson of former member of the National Convention Louis V ...
, , the literary critics
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (; 23 December 1804 – 13 October 1869) was a French literary critic.
Early life
He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824–27). In 1828, he se ...
and
Gustave Planche
Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche (16 February 1808 – 18 September 1857) was a French art and literary critic.
Life and career
Already in his time as a medical student, Planche frequented artistic circles. This did nothing to promote the success of ...
, and
Jean-Jacques Ampère.
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
The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...
. Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (, ; ), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' (''The Red and the Black'', 1830) and ''La Chartreuse de P ...
published his novella ''Mina de Vinghel'' in the magazine. George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, bein ...
also serialized her novel '' Mauprat'' in the magazine in 1837. Marguerite-Hélène Mahé
Marguerite-Hélène Mahé (1903 - 1996) was a French writer from Réunion, who is best known for her work '' Sortilèges créoles: Eudora ou l'île enchantée'' ( fr), published first in 1952, serialised into three issues of '' Revue des Deux Mond ...
serialised her novel '' Sortilèges créoles: Eudora ou l'île enchantée'' ( fr), describing slavery in Réunion
Réunion (; french: La Réunion, ; previously ''Île Bourbon''; rcf, label= Reunionese Creole, La Rényon) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. It is located approximately east of the island ...
. A later contributor was Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (, 21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French historian, critic and philosopher. He was the chief theoretical influence on French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practition ...
.
Chief editors
* François Buloz
François Buloz (20 September 1803 – 12 January 1877) was a French ''littérateur'', magazine editor, and theater administrator.
He was born in Vulbens, Haute-Savoie, near Geneva, and died in Paris.
Originally employed as a chemist, ...
, 1831–1877;
* Charles Buloz, 1877–1893;
* Ferdinand Brunetière
Ferdinand Brunetière (19 July 1849 – 9 December 1906) was a French writer and critic.
Personal and public life
Early years
Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence. After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-G ...
, 1893–1906;
* Francis Charmes
Marie François, known as Francis Charmes (21 April 1848, château de Baradel, Aurillac, Cantal – 4 January 1916, Paris) was a French journalist, diplomat, civil servant, politician and academician.
Biography
He was educated at Aurillac, and ...
, 1907–1915;
* René Doumic
René Doumic (7 March 1860, in Paris – 2 December 1937), 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 Collège Stanislas de Paris.
Life
Doumic att ...
, 1916–1937;
* André Chaumeix, 1937–1955;
* Claude-Joseph Gignoux, 1955–1966;
* Jean Vigneau, 1966–1970;
* Jean Jaudel, 1970–1991;
* Jean Bothorel
Jean Bothorel (12 May 1940) is a French journalist and the author of many books. He is a former editor at ''Le Figaro''. He was the 1993 winner of the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie.
Career
Bothorel is a journalist. He first worked for ''L'Expans ...
, 1991–1995;
* Bruno de Cessole, 1995–1999;
* Nathalie de Baudry d’Asson, 1999–2002;
* Michel Crépu, 2002–2014;
* Valerie Toranian, 2014–present.
Notes
References
External links
''La Revue des deux mondes''
online in Gallica, the digital library of the French National Library
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