Revue des deux Mondes

Revue des deux Mondes  

Abbreviated title (ISO 4)	Rev. Deux Mondes
Discipline	Literature, history, art and science
Language	French
Edited by	Société de la Revue des Deux Mondes
Publication details
Publication history	1829-present
Frequency	Monthly
Indexing
ISSN	0035-1962
OCLC no.	476419311
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The Revue des deux Mondes (French: [ʁəvy de dø mɔ̃d], Review of the Two Worlds) is a French-language monthly 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's FIMALAC Group.

History

The Revue des deux Mondes was founded by Prosper Mauroy and Pierre de 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 Buloz to edit it: its original emphasis on travel and foreign affairs soon shifted; according to its website, it was created in order to "establish a cultural, economic and political bridge between France and the United States", the Old World and the New. It was purchased in 1831 by Charles Buloz, who was its editor until 1877. Another influential editor in its history was Ferdinand Brunetière (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, François Guizot, Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry, Ludovic Vitet, Paul-François Dubois, the literary critics Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve and Gustave Planche, 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. Stendhal also published his novella Mina de Vinghel in the magazine after the first edition was published.

Chief editors

• François Buloz, 1831–1877;
• Charles Buloz, 1877–1893;
• Ferdinand Brunetière, 1893–1906;
• Francis Charmes, 1907–1915;
• René Doumic, 1916–1937;
• André Chaumeix, 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, 2002–2014;
• Valerie Toranian, 2014–present.

Further reading

• Léon Bassard & Pierre Crabitès, "The Centenary of the Revue des Deux Mondes," The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. CVI, 1929.
• Gabriel de Broglie, Histoire politique de la Revue des deux Mondes: de 1829 à 1979. Paris: Perrin, 1979.
• Victor Du Bled, Le salon de la Revue des Deux Mondes. Paris: Bloud et Gay, 1930.

External links

• La Revue des deux mondes online in Gallica, the digital library of the French National Library
• Revue des deux Mondes at the HathiTrust Digital Library