LA REVUE RÉALISTE - Lot 130

LA REVUE RÉALISTE Published every Saturday No. 1, April 5, 1879-No. 12, June 21, 1879. Paris, Dépôt chez Fenoux, Directeur : Vast-Ricouard [Raoul Vast and Gustave Ricouard], Secrétaire de la rédaction : Paul Ginisty, Administrateur : Derveaux. Texts by Edmond Benjamin, Marc Floréal, Pierre Giffard, Paul Ginisty, Gabriel Laffaille, Louis Livet, Maurice Montégut, Édouard Rod, Jean de St-Pierre, Vast-Ricouard, etc. Complete collection. 12 numbers in 12 issues in 1 vol. in-4 bound (covers preserved). Joint: - 1 L.A.S. from Pascal Pia (September 3, 1974). Copy for M. Bienvenu, editor of Le Tintamarre. Fragile copy (acid paper). Founded by Raoul Vast (1850-1889) and Gustave Ricouard (1853-1887), La Revue Réaliste was the fighting organ of these two self-proclaimed apostles of Realism. The program they formulated in the first issue opposed Romantic idealism to the scientific method, in line, they said, with the intellectual needs of the day. And in the second issue they declared: "Naturalism is a system; Realism is a method. Let others wallow in the exclusive study of ugliness. We won't go down that road. "(Cf. Les Cahiers naturalistes, n° 32, 1966, p. 138).