Revue de Paris

…who had founded the periodical Revue de Paris, urged him to make haste, but he would not. The novel, with the subtitle Moeurs de province (“Provincial Customs”), eventually appeared in installments in the Revue from October 1 to December 15, 1856. The French government then brought the author to trial…

…government’s desire to close down Revue de Paris, the magazine in which the work first appeared.

…and its rival the (Nouvelle) Revue de Paris (founded 1829), which published authors disapproved of by the other, notably Gustave Flaubert. In Germany, F.A. Brockhaus, the book publisher, tried to emulate the Edinburgh Review with Hermes (1819–31) but had more success with Literarisches Wochenblatt (1820–98). Two later reviews were the…