{{Short description|French literary magazine}} {{italic title}} {{Other uses}} {{expand French|date=February 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}} [[File:La Plume 1898.jpg|thumb|Cover art by Alfons Mucha for ''La Plume''.]] thumb|right|Karl Boès, editor 1899 to 1914
'''''La Plume''''' ({{IPA|fr|la plym}}) was a French bi-monthly literary and artistic review.<ref name="rut"/> The magazine was set up in 1889 by Léon Deschamps, who edited it for ten years and was succeeded as editor by Karl Boès from 1899 to 1914.<ref name=rut>{{cite web|title=Guide to the European Nineteenth-Century Rare Journals at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University|url=http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/finding-aid-nineteenth-c-journals|work=Rutgers University|access-date=31 May 2015|date=March 2013}}</ref> Its offices were at number 31 rue Bonaparte, Paris.<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Reed|title=The Chrysanthème Papers: The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanthème and Other Documents of French Japonisme|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVBE8bXMalAC&pg=PA13|accessdate=16 November 2016|year=2010|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-3345-9|page=13}}</ref> From its beginning, famous artists such as Willette, Forain, Eugène Grasset, Toulouse-Lautrec, Maurice Denis, Mucha, Gauguin, Pissarro, Félicien Rops, Signac, Seurat, and Redon contributed to it. One of its most famous issues is that devoted to ''Le Chat noir''. The magazine supported the symbolist art movement.<ref>{{cite book|author=Clara Elizabeth Orban|title=The Culture of Fragments: Word and Images in Futurism and Surrealism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KbCVyt6MWg0C&pg=PA26|accessdate=31 May 2015|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-0111-9|page=26}}</ref>
From 1903, ''La Plume'' sponsored weekly poetry events which included famous poets such as Max Jacob and Alfred Jarry.<ref name="lind">{{cite book|author=Linda Wagner-Martin|title=Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g2uyupUrgNkC&pg=PA74|access-date=31 May 2015|date=1 October 1997|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-2474-0|page=74}}</ref> These soirées were held at the café du Soleil, later the café du Départ.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Apollinaire |first=Guillaume |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007344916 |title=Contemporains pittoresques |date=1929 |publisher=Les Éditions de la belle page |series=Collection "Le Livre neuf"; 3 |location=Paris}}</ref> The magazine folded in 1914.<ref name=rut/>
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