THE FRENCH MESSENGER Specimen number, unnumbered and undated, then: No. 1, March 8, 1891-No. 43, December 27, 1891; 3rd year: No. 1, January 10, 1892-No. 6, February 14, 1892. Paris, Director: Sixte, then Marius Trébla, Editorial secretary: Léon Perrin. Texts by Paterne Berrichon, Georges Brandimbourg, A. Bruant, Édouard Dubus, Léon Durocher, André Ibels, Marie Krisinska, Charles Le Goffic, Paul Masson, Nielsen, Adrien Remacle, Jules Renard, Jean Richepin, Léon Riotor, Jehan Sarrazin, Marcel Schwob, Guy de Téramond, G. Vanor, Willy, etc. Cover illustrated in full page then illustrations in the text and in full page of Artus, Bob, M.A. Calbet, F.-A. Cazals, de Feure, Grün, Ibels, Camille Langlois, Lebègue, Marcel Legay, F. Lunel, Tony Martin, Gaston Noury, Pollak, Benjamin Rabier, Radiguet, Rollat, Rouault, E. Rousseau, etc. It is in the n° 35 (November 1, 1891) that appears the drawing of F.-A. Cazals : " Le Songe d'une nuit d'Automne ", Bloy, Péladan, Barbey d'Aurevilly. 49 issues in 1 vol. in-folio bound. Handwritten notes by Vasseur (2 ff.). Joint : - 1 portrait charge of Jules Renard by André Rouveyre ; - The catalog of the 1st exhibition of H. G. Ibels (1894): it is mentioned 11 drawings of the Messager français; - 1 visiting card of Guy de Téramond (1892), collaborator to the Messager français, with some lines addressed to Édouard Dujardin, without report with the review; - The supplement of the n° 10 of May 10, 1891: bulletin of subscription for a representation to the benefit of the poet Paul Verlaine and of the painter Paul Gauguin, organized to the Theater of art. The specimen number is very rare.