Le Constitutionnel
Le Constitutionnel (French pronunciation:
During the 19th century,
Véron asked Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve to write a weekly column on current literary topics. Sainte-Beuve called the now-famous collection Causeries du lundi ("Monday Chats"). His essays appeared in Le Constitutionnel from October 1849 to November 1852 and from September 1861 to January 1867 as well as in other papers. They were ruminations on authors and their works, with an emphasis on French literature.[2] Sainte-Beuve's reputation as one of the most important French literary critics of the day rested on these columns, in which he guided the literary tastes of the populace.[3] Like other papers at the time, Le Constitutionnel had a "literary slant", which covered up their lack of national news, a slant, which according to Britannica, "persists to some degree in the modern era" in French newspapers.[1]
In 1862, Jules Mirès purchased the newspaper as its quality was worsening. Beginning in 1880, it saw a real decline and ceased publication in 1914.
Under the editorship of Louis Véron, from 1844 to 1862, the following works were published serially:
- Jeanne by George Sand
- Le Juif errant by Eugène Sue
- L’Allée des veuves et Les Grands Danseurs du Roi by Charles Rabou
- Le Cabinet des Antiques (under the title les Rivalités de Province) by Balzac in 1838
- La Cousine Betteby Balzac in 1846
- Le Cousin Pons by Balzac in 1847
- Le Colonel Chabertby Balzac in 1847
- Le Député d'Arcis by Balzac in 1852
- Renée de Varville by Virginie Ancelot
- The novels of Alexandre Dumas, Prosper Mérimée, and Alfred de Musset
Notes
- ^ a b "Publishing, history of." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 27 January 2009.
- ^ "Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 27 January 2009.
- ^ Martin Travers, European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism: A Reader in Aesthetic Practice, Continuum International Publishing Group (2001), 90.
External links
- Le Constitutionnel digitized issues from 1819 to 1914 in BnF.
References
- "Le Constitutionnel". Larousse encyclopédique en dix volumes. Vol. III.
- Imhaus, Patrick. Robinet de La Serve: l'énergumène créole. Océan Éditions. Saint-André, 2007. ISBN 978-2-916533-24-7.
- Véron, Louis. Mémoires d’un bourgeois de Paris. de Gonet, 1853–1855.