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| Éditions de la Revue Universelle | |
|---|---|
| Name | Éditions de la Revue Universelle |
| Founded | 19th century |
| Country | France |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Publications | Books, Journals, Pamphlets |
| Topics | Philosophy, Literature, Politics, Science |
Éditions de la Revue Universelle
Éditions de la Revue Universelle was a Parisian publishing imprint associated with a periodical of the same name active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, linked to debates among intellectuals such as Jules Verne, Émile Zola, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, Émile Durkheim, Henri Bergson, Paul Valéry, Arthur Rimbaud, Stendhal and Honoré de Balzac and engaged with institutions like the Académie Française, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the École Normale Supérieure, the Collège de France, the Société des Gens de Lettres, and the Alliance Française.
The imprint emerged amid cultural currents shaped by figures and events including Napoleon III, the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune, the Belle Époque, the Dreyfus Affair, the Third French Republic, the Exposition Universelle (1889), and the intellectual circles of Montparnasse and Montmartre, intersecting with journals and presses such as La Revue Blanche, Le Figaro, Le Temps, La Nouvelle Revue Française, Mercure de France, Les Temps modernes, Revue politique et littéraire, Revue des Deux Mondes, Revue des études juives, and the Société des Bibliophiles while responding to legal frameworks like the Lois Ferry and municipal networks around Paris Métro expansion.
Founders and early editors drew on relationships with authors and institutions including Théophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, Alphonse Daudet, Goncourt brothers, Alfred de Musset, Alexandre Dumas père, Alexandre Dumas fils, Gustave Flaubert's correspondents, and scientists and public intellectuals such as Claude Bernard, Louis Pasteur, Pierre Janet, Henri Poincaré, Camille Flammarion, Jules Henri Poincaré, Auguste Comte, Émile Zola’s allies, and contributors from the Sorbonne, Université de Paris, Collège Stanislas de Paris, and provincial presses in Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Rouen, and Nantes. Early lists featured essays, translations, literary criticism and pamphlets touching on debates presided over at salons hosted by Madame de Staël, George Sand, Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, and literary societies including Cercle de l'Union artistique and Académie Goncourt.
Editorial policy favored serialized essays, polemics, and critical editions, publishing work by an international array of writers and thinkers connected to networks such as Édouard Drumont, Léon Bloy, Charles Péguy, Maurice Barrès, Paul Bourget, André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, André Malraux, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Gaston Leroux, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Théodore de Banville, and scholars from École des Chartes, Musée du Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Institut de France, Institut Pasteur, Institut Catholique de Paris. Contributors included correspondents tied to international presses such as The Times, Le Monde, The New York Times, and to expatriate communities from London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Vienna, Saint Petersburg, New York City, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Brussels, Geneva, Zurich, Lisbon, Prague.
The imprint issued editions and critical texts by or about major figures including editions of Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Alfred Jarry, Octave Mirbeau, Romain Rolland, Marcel Schwob, Paul Claudel, Jules Renard, Georges Bernanos, Maurice Maeterlinck, Sacha Guitry, Jean Cocteau, Jean Anouilh, Henri Michaux, Blaise Cendrars, Léon Werth, Joseph Kessel, Romain Gary, Jean Giraudoux, François Mauriac, Éluard, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Boris Vian, Simone Weil, with scholarly apparatus by editors trained at Université de Strasbourg, Université de Bordeaux, Université de Lyon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and libraries such as Bibliothèque Mazarine, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Bibliothèque Forney. Critical editions and translations intersected with editorial projects at Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Penguin Books, and academic series associated with Presses Universitaires de France.
Distribution networks reached booksellers and institutions including Librairie Hachette, Flammarion, Gallimard, Grasset, Plon, Fayard, Laffont, Albin Michel, Editions du Seuil, Les Éditions Stock, La Procure, and international distributors such as Bertelsmann, Random House, Penguin Random House, Grupo Planeta, Feltrinelli, Scribner, Knopf, HarperCollins, and academic consortia at Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, Sorbonne University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Toronto, University of Chicago. The imprint influenced debates in periodicals like Revue d'Action française, L'Illustration, Le Matin, La Croix, Le Petit Journal, and shaped curricula at institutions including École Polytechnique, Sciences Po, École des Mines, Conservatoire de Paris.
Shifts after events such as World War I, World War II, the Spanish Civil War, the May 1968 protests, changing markets with the rise of conglomerates like Havas, Vivendi, and regulatory changes tied to the Ordonnance de 1945 and postwar cultural policy led to diminished output, consolidation, acquisition talks with houses like Gallimard, Hachette Livre, Editis, and eventual cessation or absorption into successor imprints. The imprint's legacy persists in scholarly citations in works on Dreyfus, Zola's J'accuse!, Dada, Surrealism, Symbolism, Naturalism, Modernism, and in bibliographies curated by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Archives (France), the Institut Mémoire de l'Edition Contemporaine, and catalogues at the Bibliothèque publique d'information.
Primary and secondary materials are held in collections at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), the Archives Nationales, the Musée d'Orsay archive, the Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC), the Fondation Maison de Balzac, the Centre Pompidou Bibliothèque Kandinsky, the Sorbonne Library, the Municipal Library of Lyon, the Municipal Library of Marseille, the Bibliothèque du Musée Carnavalet, the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris, the British Library, the Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, the Library of Congress, the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, and special collections at Harvard University Library, Yale University Library, University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library, Princeton University Library, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure and digitized holdings in projects by Gallica, Europeana, and university repositories at HAL (open archive). Researchers consult catalogues and correspondences indexed in inventories linked to INIST-CNRS, Cairn.info, JSTOR, and archival guides produced by Ministère de la Culture (France) and municipal cultural services.
Category:Publishing companies of France Category:Defunct publishing companies