La Revue des deux mondes

Revue des deux mondes, La. Founded in 1829 by Mauroy and Ségur-Dupeyron, this bimonthly review covered the arts and culture, politics, and economics. Early contributors included Vigny, Musset, Balzac, and Sand. Under the management of the Buloz family, the journal reflected the political liberalism and social conservatism of July Monarchy Orléanism. It had close ties with the Rothschilds and Le Journal des débats. Somewhat staid in literary tastes, La Revue was the most widely read of French reviews by the 1860s; in 1914 it still had 40, 000 subscribers. It published pieces by Leconte de Lisle and Heredia, Maupassant, Loti, and Anatole France. But, from the editorship of Brunetière onwards (1893), it became something of an intellectual backwater. It supported Antoine Pinay and Edgar Faure under the Fourth Republic, and rallied to de Gaulle under the Fifth. It was relaunched in 1982.

[Michael Palmer]