THE EFFORT Artistic and literary magazine N° 1, March 1896-N° 25, March 1898. The n° 26 (April 1898) is missing and in the n° 1, as in almost all the copies, the decorative panel of A. Demeure de Beaumont. Toulouse, Director: Maurice Magre. Texts by Pascal Delga, E. Delmousquet, André Fontainas, Charles Guérin, A.-F. Herold, Gustave Kahn, Tristan Klingsor, Marc Lafargue, André Magre, Maurice Magre, Ephraïm Mikhael, H. Muchart, Edmond Pilon, Pierre Quillard, Henri de Régnier, Laurent Tailhade, Jean de Tinan, Frantz Toussaint, Jean Viollis. 25 numbers in 20 issues in 2 vol. in-8 bound (the n° 23-24 and 25 are stapled). Joint : - 1 L.A.S. from Maurice Magre to Charles Guérin (n.d. [1896]) ; - 1 L.A.S. from Jean Viollis to an unidentified correspondent (March 1896) ; - The booklet : Poèmes des Mois : Almanach pour 1898 par les poètes de L'Effort, with a sending from Jean Viollis to Léon Deschamps. Missing is the n° 4 of the Revue historique et littéraire du Languedoc (November 1944), which gives the history of L'Effort. Maurice Magre defines his ambition in the first issue of L'Effort as follows: "We are founding a Revue to write according to our soul, to walk freely in the conquest of our dream of existence. [...] Our Revue will be free, that is to say that it will not belong to any school, that it will simply be the organ of different minds developing each in their own way, according to their personality. [...] "