The Revue des Deux Mondes is a monthly literary and cultural affairs magazine published in the French language. A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ...
According to its website, "it is today the place for debates and dialogues between nations, disciplines and cultures, about the major subjects of our societies".
The Club des Hashischins (sometimes also spelled Club des Hashishins or Club des Hachichin), was a Parisian society dedicated to the exploration of drug-induced experiences, notably with hashish.
Gautier wrote about the club in an article entitled "Le Club des Hachichin" published in the RevuedesDeuxMondes in February 1846, recounting his recent visit.
While he is often cited as the founder of the club, in the article his says he was attending their monthly "séances" for the first time that evening and made clear that others were sharing a familiar experience with him.
La Revuedesdeuxmondes was the successor of Le Globe, the newspaper that had preached moderate, noncontroversial points of view in the artistic and literary conflicts of the Restoration.
The policy of La Revuedesdeuxmondes was to infuse Romantic writers and artists with a spirit of self-criticism and to combat the excesses of Romantic art.
Both Le Globe and La Revuedesdeuxmondes longed to see modern Shakespearean content combine with classical or Homeric form, not to please the presumed ignorant mass public, but to maintain the greatness of French art and theatre, and their views, particularly in artistic debates, are more accurately called eclectic than juste-milieu.
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