La Revue blanche -
the periodical

THE Revue Blanche was an influential literary and artistic journal published in Paris by the brothers Thadée, Alexandre, and Alfred Natanson from 1891 to 1903.

Both privately and through their journal, each issue of which would contain an original print, the Natansons were generous supporters of Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard, and other artists of the avant-garde.

Some of the articles and stories published in the Revue blanche were the first French translations of works by prominent foreign writers, including Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Ibsen, Kipling, Stevenson, Wilde, and Twain. Among the French authors were Zola, Gide, Proust, and Mallarmé.

Through the Revue blanche and the Natansons, Lautrec expanded his circle of friends and contacts beyond the café, becoming close friends with the author Romain Coolus, who introduced him to progressive theatre, and the poet and writer Paul Leclerq.

Some other popular or artistically important periodicals of the time include: L'Echo de Paris, Le Figaro illustré, Gil blas, La Plume, Le Rire, and La Vie Parisienne.

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