Gil Blas (magazine)
Gil Blas was the name of a Parisian periodical that appeared every day from November 19, 1879 to August 4, 1914, and from January 20, 1921 to March 1940. The founder of the primarily literary and culturally oriented publication was the journalist and newspaper editor Auguste Dumont (1816–1885), who had previously directed Le Figaro , among others . Gil Blas, however, aroused the displeasure of the “guardians of public morality” from the start.
Gil Blas (named after the satirical novel of the same name by Alain-René Lesage ) published, among other things, in sequels Émile Zola's novels Germinal and L'Œuvre or the novel X ... roman impromptu, co-authored by “ten hands” . The authors were Georges Courteline , Jules Renard , George Auriol , Tristan Bernard and Pierre Veber .
The Gil Blas appeared in the then typical presentation of a daily newspaper . The lavishly illustrated supplement Gil Blas illustré , which appeared weekly from 1891 onwards, became the model for the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus .
Other well-known contributors
- Paul Arène
- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
- Émile Bergerat
- Léon Bloy
- Paul Bourget
- Alfred Bruneau
- Robert Caze
- Léon Cladel
- Maurice Couyba
- Charles Desteuque
- Georges Docquois
- Émile Goudeau
- Albert Guillaume
- Abel Hermant
- Clovis Hugues
- Henri Lavedan
- Maurice Lefebvre-Lourdet
- Camille Lemonnier
- Guy de Maupassant
- René Maizeroy
- Hector Malot
- Catulle Mendès
- Georges Ohnet
- Richard O'Monroy
- Jean Richepin
- Henri Rochefort
- Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen
- Jules Vallès
- Louis Vauxcelles
- Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Individual evidence
- ^ Source BNF
- ↑ See René Dumesnil: L'époque réaliste et naturaliste. Paris 1945, p. 249: "Le Gil Blas, dès ses débuts attira l'attention des défenseurs de la morale publique"
- ↑ published from April 4, 1895 to May 21, 1895