Le Correspondant

Le Correspondant was a French cultural magazine founded in March 1829 by Louis de Carné, Edmond de Cazalès and Augustin de Meaux. The motto of this magazine of Catholic and moderate royalist orientation was: "Civil and religious liberty throughout the universe" ("Liberté civile et religieuse par tout l'univers").

History

Le Correspondant was founded in March 1829. The publication ceased in 1831, before being revived from 1843, in the form of a monthly review, under the direction of Edmond Wilson and Victor-Amédée Waille (1798–1976).

After falling into a state of dormancy, it was re-launched in 1855 by the Count of Montalembert as a Catholic organ of opposition to the Second Empire and to Louis Veuillot's newspaper L'Univers. The Correspondant then became the place of expression for liberal Catholics and moderate royalists, worried about the almost complete adherence of the Church of France to the imperial government and opposed to the reactionary theories defended by the pontifical authority.

The editorial board included Montalembert, Count de Falloux, Albert de Broglie, the journalist Charles Lenormant, Augustin Cochin, and Théophile Foisset. The ecclesiastics Félix Dupanloup and Henri Lacordaire, the former ministers Villemain and Saint-Marc Girardin were added as important editors.

Lacordaire published in 1856 his eulogy of Frédéric Ozanam, who had died in 1853, as well as his Lettres à un jeune homme sur la vie chrétienne (Letters to a young man on the Christian life); Albert de Broglie published his study on the Church and the Roman Empire in the fourth century, and Montalembert excerpted from Moines d'Occident.

Armand de Melun and Augustin Cochin published articles on social issues, thus helping to define the new social Catholicism.

The Correspondant was suspended again on September 10, 1870 after the death of Montalembert and the birth of the Third Republic.

The magazine reappeared from June 25, 1871, until 1937, when the Correspondant was absorbed by the French Jesuit magazine Études.

Publication frequency

• Weekly (1829–1831)
• Monthly (1843–1868)
• Bi-monthly (1869–1937)

Notable contributors

• Alfred Baudrillart
• Gustave Bord
• Henri Brémond
• Pauline Marie Armande Craven
• Léopold de Gaillard
• Léon de Lanzac de Laborie
• Charles de Lacombe
• Hilaire de Lacombe
• Charles de Moüy
• Armand de Pontmartin
• Alexandre de Saint-Albin

References

• Augustine, Flavia (1958). Le Correspondant: French Liberal Catholic Journal, 1843-1855. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press.
• Calippe, Charles (1911). L'Attitude Sociale des Catholiques Français au XIX Siècle, Vol. 2. Paris: Bloud.
• Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste (1951). Les Debuts du Catholicisme Sociale en France (1822-1870). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
• Gimpl, Caroline Ann (1974). The Correspondant and the Founding of the French Third Republic. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
• Isnard, Albert (1902). Le Correspondant: Table Générale de 1875 a 1900. Paris: Bureaux du Correspondant.
• Prévotat, Jacques (1980). "Le Correspondant et la revue L'Action française, 1905-1908. Dossier d'une polémique," Études maurrassiennes, Vol. IV, pp. 206–22.
• Weill, Georges (1909). Histoire du Catholicisme Libéral en France 1828-1908. Paris: Alcan.

External links

• Le Correspondant at Gallica