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Hélène Brion’s journal, La Lutte féministe, ‘organe unique et rigoureusement indépendant du féminisme intégral’ is generally thought to have first appeared in February 1919. However, the discovery of four elegantly handwritten manuscript issues of the same journal in the Sylvia Beach archive at Princeton University Library reveals that Brion had launched an earlier version of La Lutte féministe for limited distribution among an inner-circle of pacifist feminist schoolteachers and fellow political travellers barely a week before the Armistice in November 1918. These manuscript issues which are, to the best of my knowledge, single one-off copies, show Brion and her fellow activists urgently mobilizing around issues of suffrage and peace as the war ended. The manuscripts reveal what motivated Brion’s initial Lutte féministe project and the progressive shifts in theme, content and presentation of the journals provide a fascinating insight into the popularizing strategies Brion rehearsed ahead of a print version aimed at a wider readership. Previously unpublished transcripts of correspondence and personal testimonies offer illuminating insights into the acrimonious relationship between Brion and the mainstream reformist feminist movement and enable a unique and intimate personal and political profiling of Brion and her entourage. This article not only brings to light these fascinating documents but also gives valuable insight into the evolving modalities of feminist publishing at the end of the First World War. It explains just how unemployed schoolteacher Brion managed to produce, circulate and popularize the journal with virtually no financial support. In addition, the article’s examination of editorial choices she made ahead of the print version are revelatory of the proselytizing strategies used by feminists to reach women of the popular classes at a time of great optimism for lasting political and social change. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bookseller and publisher for more than 25 years, François Maspero is perceived by the new generation of critical publishers as a key figure in commitment through books. His atypical professional life is coherent with that period of contemporary French history characterised by the challenges of decolonialisation, the war in Algeria, and the ideological debates between the years following the uprising in May 1968 until political alternation of 1981. His actions in favour of Algerian independence and his revolutionary stand, illustrated by the publishing of such magazines as Partisans and Tricontinentale, are noteworthy. Working out of the Place Paul-Painlevé, the publisher also contributed significantly to the use of alternate approaches to the fields of social sciences and the humanities. He was closely associated with the cultural upheavals of the time and acted as a transmitter of perceptions held by the Third World at a time when they were unknown in France. His retirement coincided with a more pessimistic time, associated with globalisation in a more liberal époque. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that Sand's newspaper publishing activities - from their inception in 1841 to their decline at the end of the Second Republic - deserve recognition within the history of the press. Hitherto neglected writings are analysed as a hybrid form of literary journalism according to some definitions of the genre provided by Norman Sims. This permits a focus on Sand's 'flights of imagination', articles written under pseudonyms and in the voices of fictional characters, created as a tool for idealistic political education. The now classic Benedict Anderson paradigm of 'imagined communities' is used to contextualise Sand's use of the vernacular and helps to position her contribution towards the use of newspapers as a vehicle for the communication of democratic and progressive ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on literary publishing by foreigners in Paris, France as of 2003. Tradition of Anglophone publishing; Literary magazines which appeared in the 1910s through the 1930s; Appeal of the do-it-yourself publishing sector in Paris.

Focuses on the United States' boycott of French products and how this boycott may have spread to include scientific output. Investigation of whether the proportion of French papers published in leading U.S. journals differed in the periods before and after the French veto to military intervention in Iraq, which caused the boycott; Pattern that was found in the publication of French articles; Decrease in the publication of French medical articles after the boycott.

The article announces the opening of the journal "French Forum" to French and Francophone cinema. The author intents to diversify and vitalize the journal by making film studies an integral part of it. He added that they will continue to welcome and publish contributions on all periods and genres of French and Francophone literature.

Presents an update on the publication of the "Studies in French Cinema" journal, as of 2003. Contributions made and received by the journal; Activities of the Association of Studied in French Cinema; Information on the articles included in the 2003 issue of the publication.