YOUNG FRANCE Published on the 1st of each month N° 1, May 1 1878-N° 116, April 15 1888. From n° 113 onwards, the title becomes : La Jeune France, Revue libre. Became La Revue libre from no. 116; this continued the numbering of La Jeune France and lasted until September 1888, before merging with La Revue Indépendante on November 1, 1888. Paris, Aux Bureaux de La Jeune France, Directors: Albert Allenet, then Paul Demeny, Editorial secretaries: Albert Dègre, then Paul Demeny, then Émile Michelet, then Rodolphe Darzens. Texts by Jean Aicard, Jean Ajalbert, Paul Arène, Maurice Barrès, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Bourget, Robert Caze, Félicien Champsaur, Léon Cladel, Jules Claretie, François Coppée, Rodolphe Darzens, Alphonse Daudet, Léon Dierx, Emmanuel des Essarts, Anatole France, André Gill, Albert Glatigny, Stanislas de Guaita, J.-M. de Heredia, Ernest d'Hervilly, Victor Hugo, Georges Izambard, Henri de Lacretelle, Leconte de Lisle, Jean Lorrain, Catulle Mendès, Émile Michelet, Charles Morice, Nadar, Camille Pelletan, Edgar Poe (translated by Albert Allenet), Jean Rameau, Louis Ratisbonne, Georges Rodenbach, Maurice Rollinat, Armand Silvestre, Sully Prudhomme, Laurent Tailhade, Octave Uzanne, Émile Verhaeren, Eugène Vermersch, Gabriel Vicaire, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (Axel), Émile Zola, etc. Complete collection. 116 numbers in 116 issues in 10 in-8 bound volumes (covers preserved). The 1st vol. is complete with Félix Régamey's frontispiece depicting the contributors to La Jeune France. Handwritten notes by Vasseur (11 ff.). Enclosed: - La Revue libre, no. 117, May 1888; In Volume 1: - 3 pages from the Bulletin des Amis de Maurice Rollinat (no. 5, April 1965), in which La Jeune France is quoted; In Volume 2: - 2 propaganda posters for the 2nd year with a poem signed L.V. [Léon Valade], one in mock-up form, the other in its final state; In Volume 3: - 1 L.A.S. from Albert Allenet (May 17, 1881) concerning a collection fee that a subscriber refused to pay, and announcing the dispatch of the frontispiece; In Volume 6: - 1 propaganda poster for the magazine's 6th year; - Announcement of Albert Allenet's death (inserted in no. 68, December 1, 1883); In Volume 9: - L.A.S. from Jules Mayet (6/2*1887) to Alfred Morin expressing great dismay at the death of the magazine's administrator, Mr. Léon Laloux (inserted in no. 102, January 1887); In Volume 10: - 1 L.A.S. from Jules Mayet, administrator of La Jeune France, on the magazine's letterhead, giving the magazine's new address (inserted in no. 108, August 1887).