François Buloz (Vulbens 1803 - Paris 1877) is a French editor and publicity agent.

Chemist of formation, it starts by being Prote of printing works, is made type-setter of printing works and corrector, translated some English works, then Co-founds in 1829 the Review of the Two Worlds which it directs during forty years, joining together around its publication the elite of the French writers: Charles Augustin Holy-Beuve, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Vigny, Alfred de Musset, George Sand, Honore de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas father and, later, Octave Layer, Hippolyte Taine and Ernest Renan. This review takes soon the first rank of the Périodique S French, row which it will preserve at the 19th century. It is devoted entire to this collection, and ensures some success by its judgment, its untiring activity and an energy of will that it imposes even to the most considerable writers.

In 1847 - 1848, François Buloz is Administrateur of the Comédie-Française. He remains in Ronjoux close to the Mound-Servolex and receives Parisian intelligentsia there. Buloz is a key character of this second third of the 19th century which sees the birth of the trade of editor and the emergence of the “ leading thing ”.

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