L'EFFORT Artistic and literary magazine No. 1, March 1896-No. 25, March 1898. No. 26 (April 1898) is missing and in No. 1, as in almost all copies, the decorative panel by 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 issues in 20 deliveries in 2 in-8 vol. bound (nos. 23-24 and 25 are stapled). Joint : - 1 L.A.S. from Maurice Magre to Charles Guérin (s.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 dispatch from Jean Viollis to Léon Deschamps. No. 4 of the Revue historique et littéraire du Languedoc (November 1944), which recounts the history of L'Effort, is missing. Maurice Magre defines his ambition in the 1st issue of L'Effort: "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, meaning that it will not belong to any school, that it will simply be the organ of different minds, each developing in their own direction, according to their own personality. [...] "