the Chronicle of Paris is a monthly literary review founded by Honore de Balzac in 1835.

In 1835, Balzac learned that this newspaper, a royalist sheet, was to be sold, and it bought it as usual, with funds which it did not have. The company, which had appeared dramatic with very other, filled of joy Balzac which built at once its “castles in Spain”. All was simple: Gustave Planche would take care of literary criticism, Théophile Gautier, whose Balzac appreciated the young talent would belong to the drafting. The young novelist, very impressed by Balzac, promised articles.

When finally the Chronicle of Paris appeared (January 1st 1836) the team included/understood important feathers: Victor Hugo, Gustave Board, Alphonse Karr, Théophile Gautier. And for the illustrations, there was Henri Monnier, Grandville and Daumier. Balzac reserving the policy (since the newspaper was a tool of being able), and it would provide also news. Actually, if the members of the drafting feasted much at Balzac, well little of them their engagements held. Balzac wrote the Chronicle practically with him all alone. It published there texts which one will find later in the human Comedy, altered thousand times Prohibition , the Mass of the atheist , Facino Cane . As for the signed political articles of its hand, here an extract of that published on May 12th, 1836:

“Mister Thiers forever have only one thought: he always thought of Mr Thiers (...). Mister Guizot is a wind vane which, in spite of its ceaseless mobility, remains on the same building. ”

At the beginning, the newspaper had a great success. The new subscribers flowed and the Chronicle could have succeeded if Balzac had not been obliged to deliver, at the same time, with its editors (Mrs Béchet, and Werdet) last volumes of the Études of manners , if it, in addition, had not gone bankrupt in another chimerical company launched with his Surville brother-in-law, and if it had not had on the arms a lawsuit against François Buloz in connection with the Lily in the valley. Stopped by the National guard, conduit at the prison (which the Werdet editor made it leave rather quickly), it was now discouraged. Threatened to be put in bankruptcy, it decided to give up the Chronique .