Mercure de France

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First edition of the Mercure Galant 1672

The Mercure Galant (also Mercure Gallant , from 1724 Mercure de France ) is a style-defining (more detailed here the keyword Galant ) French-language magazine of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

With the monthly editions published from 1672 to 1674 and then from 1678 to 1714, readers received a mixture of politics, short stories that were always slightly scandalous, poetry, music.

Several Parisian publishers have been involved in the project over the course of its publication history. The first series, published from 1672 to 1674, was published by Claude Barbin, Theodore Girard, H. Loyson in Paris. The central editor was Jean Donneau de Visé (1638–1710).

The second set, with its volumes published from 1678 to 1714, was published under the publisher's name “au Palais”, Paris. The central editors here were Jean Donneau de Visé, Thomas Corneille (1625–1709) and Charles du Fresny (1648–1724).

Charles du Fresny (1648-1724)

The project was later renamed Nouveau Mercure galant and finally in 1724 Mercure de France . It remained active under this title with interruptions until today. The Mercure de France is currently managed by the Editions Gallimard publishing group.

expenditure

  • Le Mercure galant: contenant plusieurs histoires veritables… Paris: C. Barbin / Theodore Girard / H. Loyson (1672–1674). Gallica
  • Mercure Galant (Paris au Palais, 1678 / 1682-1714). Gallica, editions from 1678 and 1682

Online editions (1672–1791)

See also

literature

  • Joan DeJean: The Essence of Style. How the French Invented Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamor. Free Press, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-7432-6414-3 .
  • Patrick Dandrey (Ed.): Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le XVIIe siècle (Collection La Pochothèque). Fayard, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-253-05664-2 .

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