L'Écho de la Jeune France
| Type | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Alfred Nettement |
| Editor | Joseph-Alexis Walsh |
| Founded | 1833 |
| Political alignment | Legitimism |
| Language | French |
| Ceased publication | 1837 |
| Headquarters | Paris, Kingdom of France |
The Echo of Young France (French: L'Écho de la Jeune France)[lower-alpha 1] was a French legitimist journal published under the July Monarchy.
Contents
History
Foundation and editorial line
Founded in 1833 by the young journalist Alfred Nettement, L'Écho de la Jeune France was a magazine supported by local legitimist committees. Its interests ranged from politics and religion to literature. In 1834, Honoré de Balzac published The Duchesse de Langeais, François-René de Chateaubriand Danger and Inutility of Atheism, Pierre-Simon Ballanche serialized a section of the General Formula of the History of All Peoples[1] and Gobineau was an art critic. Its illustrators included Alphonse-Léon Noël.
The magazine was also linked to the Romantic movement. The term Jeunes-France was used to describe a literary and artistic group active in the early 1830s opposed to the classical tradition, such as Pétrus Borel, Gérard de Nerval and Théophile Gautier.[2] Viscount Joseph-Alexis Walsh (1785–1860), a writer from the legitimist camp, was its director.
Support for the Duke of Bordeaux
The magazine stood out from other legitimist publications by declaring its support for the Duke of Bordeaux[lower-alpha 2] rather than Charles X. The latter was seen as representing an ‘old France’, while his grandson embodied a renewed royalism. The magazine also distributed a host of objects celebrating the young prince, such as engravings of him. It was therefore aimed in particular at young legitimists.
At the same time, the Société de la Jeune France (Society of Young France) was founded, with the aim of placing the Duke of Bordeaux on the throne. L'Écho de la Jeune France was therefore the spearhead of ‘Henriquinquism’, which was expressed loudly on the Prince's thirteenth birthday on 29 September 1833, when dozens of ‘Jeunes France’ travelled to Prague to cheer Henri V, much to the fury of Charles X and his entourage, notably the Duke of Blacas.
Success then demise
Thanks to its modern style, at a time when legitimism was struggling to recover from the 1830 Revolution and the disastrous escapade of the Duchess of Berry in the Vendée, the magazine appealed to many legitimists and had 8,000 subscribers by 1834, rising to 10,000 thereafter.
Publication was short-lived, however, and the magazine disappeared in 1837.
Notable contributors
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ Full title L'Écho de la Jeune France: journal de réforme sociale par le christianisme (April–December 1835), later L'Écho de la Jeune France: revue catholique de la littérature, des sciences et des arts (January–June 1836) and finally Écho de la Jeune France: littérature, histoire, philosophie, théâtres, sciences et arts (July 1836–June 1837).
- ↑ Henri d'Artois, Duke of Bordeaux, did not adopt the courtesy title of Count of Chambord until 1838, under which he became known to posterity.
Citations
- ↑ McCalla, Arthur (1998). A Romantic Historiosophy: The Philosophy of History of Pierre-Simon Ballanche. Leiden: Brill, p. 354.
- ↑ Matoré, Georges (1967). Le vocabulaire et la société sous Louis-Philippe. Genève: Slatkine Reprints, p. 115.
References
- Bénichou, Paul (1971). "Jeune-France et Bousingots: essai de mise au point," Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, Vol. LXXI, No. 3, pp. 439–62.
- Rials, Stéphane (1983). Le légitimisme. Paris: PUF.
- Tilby, Michaël (2008). "« La Duchesse de Langeais » en livraisons : Balzac et « L'Écho de la Jeune France »," L'Année balzacienne, No. 9, pp. 259–82.
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