Les Temps modernes

*Les Temps modernes*
Categories	Literary magazine
Frequency	Bimonthly
Founder	Simone de Beauvoir; Jean-Paul Sartre; Maurice Merleau-Ponty;
First issue	1945
Final issue	2019
Company	Éditions Gallimard
Country	France
Based in	Paris
Language	French
Website	gallimard.fr
ISSN	0040-3075

Les Temps Modernes (lit. 'Modern Times') was a French journal, founded by Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Its first issue was published in October 1945. It was named after the 1936 film by Charlie Chaplin.^[1]

Les Temps Modernes filled the void left by the disappearance of the most important pre-war literary magazine, La Nouvelle Revue Française (The New French Review), considered to be André Gide's magazine, which was shut down by the authorities after the liberation of France because of its collaboration with the occupation.^[2]

Les Temps Modernes was first published by Gallimard and was last published by Gallimard. In between, the magazine changed hands three times: Julliard (January 1949 to September 1965), Presses d'aujourd'hui (October 1964 to March 1985), Gallimard (from April 1985). Les Temps Modernes ceased publication in 2019, after 74 years.^[3]

^ Appignanesi, Lisa. (2005). Simone de Beauvoir and “Merleau-Ponty”, London: Haus, ISBN 1-904950-09-4, p. 82.
^ Contat, Michel (22 July 2010). "La littérature au service du présent". Le Monde. Paris.
^ Poirier, Agnès (25 May 2019). "Les Temps Modernes: Paris mourns passing of the intellectual left's bible". The Observer. Retrieved 19 May 2020.

[1] Appignanesi, Lisa. (2005). Simone de Beauvoir and “Merleau-Ponty”, London: Haus, ISBN 1-904950-09-4, p. 82.

[2] Contat, Michel (22 July 2010). "La littérature au service du présent". Le Monde. Paris.

[Observer2019-3] Poirier, Agnès (25 May 2019). "Les Temps Modernes: Paris mourns passing of the intellectual left's bible". The Observer. Retrieved 19 May 2020.

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