The Mercury of the , sometimes called French Mercury of the , is a literary Magazine French published of 1823 with 1832.

Published by Henri de Latouche, assisted Ader, Etienne, Jay, Tissot, Thiessé, Year, Bert, Berville, Bodin, Buchon, Lord of the manor, Dulaure, Dumoulin, Dupaty, Guadet, Jal, Lanjuinais, Cauchois-Lemaire, Moreau, Pages, Picardy, Saintine, Senancour, Thiers, Ymbert, etc, the Mercure of the drew its name from the Mercure from France , which had ceased appearing in 1824. It is famous to have applied the first the term of realism to the Littérature in 1826.

The Mercure of the was notable for its opposition to the Romantisme and to have published poets and authors of the beginning of such as Senancour.

This periodical did not deal however only with literature; this subject constituted, with, a convenient cover to circumvent the censure to speak about policy without having the air of it. All the occasions are good for him to criticize any attempt at return to the order of the things of before the Révolution.

Reference

• Odette-Adina Rachman, a liberal Periodical under the Restoration: The Mercury of, (April 1823 - March 1826) , Geneva, Slatkine, 1984 ISBN 9782051005401