The illustrated papers, Illustration, Monde Illustre, the great magazines, the older and more recent ones, Revue des Deux-Mondes, Revue de Paris, Correspondant, the Revue of Mr. Finot, whose writings are often translated in America; the Revue Hebdomadaire, and thousands of magazines and papers of the technical press, amongst which the Auto, were in 1917 completed by new organs having as object the stimulating of French energy. The Explorateur, the France au Travail, the Usine, etc., aim at the practical preparation for the difficult after-war days. The artistic press was taking a rest; the Gazette des Beaux Arts and the Revue des Arts Dicoratifs, however, were preparing for their reappearance. The Art de France was busily organizing numerous lec tures, preparing the national revival in what concerned art.
But the vast family of French journalism was not so deeply absorbed by its work as not to think of foresight and fraternity. In 1875 the press for the first time elected a syndicate to which it entrusted its rights. Later, other groups grew active: the special de la presse republicaine in which after a scission with the conservative press, the latter founded the Reunion fibre des journaux de Paris. The assocation syndicate profes sionnelle des journalistes republicains francais dates from 1880, the Association des journal istes parisiens from 1890. More associations have sprung up since.
Thus, through the multiplication of all sorts of papers, the words of Alfred de Vigny (d. 1863) were realized in 1918: °The bourgeois of Paris is a king to whom, every morning, a flatterer tells 20 stories. He is not obliged to invite him to lunch; he silences him and allows him to talk when he pleases. This faithful friend pleases him all the more that he is the mirror of his soul and tells him daily his own opinions in choicer terms than he could find himself. Take that friend away, and it will seem as if the world stopped. This friend, this oracle, this very cheap parasite is—his paper!" In 1917 there were in Paris 3,170 papers classified as follows: financial, 251; medical, 269; political, fashion, 130; 192 literary, political and scientific magazines and 129 sport magazines. The total for the provinces was
about 3,973, whereof 685 were republican ((pro gressists* and moderate; 394 radical and socialist-radical; 99 socialist and unified social ist; 2,208 nationalist, antisemit and sundry; and 587 conservative, Catholic and liberal.
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