Saturday 14 October 2017

'Autographe' journal of literary history & archiving

L'Autographe.ed. G. Bourdin. No.1, Saturday Dec. 5, 1863. Softcover Folio, 8 pp.

 
L'Autographe was a large-format journal catering to historians and archivists of 19th century (primarily French cultural) history, and an influence for this archive's associated journal, Rêvenance. It reproduced an eclectic array of handwritten notes, drawings, and other documents. The items in this issue of particular interest for the Revenant Archive include a notes by the avant-garde composer Hector Berlioz (see his Grotesques of Music in the Archive), the revolutionary activist Garibaldi, the Romanticist writers Alfred de Musset, Jules Sandeau (George Sand's estranged husband) and Jules Janin (enemy of frenetic ultra-Romanticism), the moderate Romanticist Léon Gozlan (probable coiner of the term "bousingo" in his satirical attacks on Radical Romanticism), plus a drawing by the liberal cartoonist Cham, a number of whose satires of Anarchism are included in the archive.

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