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This journal is one of the two oldest scholarly journals in the modern sense. It was begun a few months before the institution of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in 1665. The Journal des Sçavans has a somewhat complex publication history. It was begun by Jean-Denis de Sallo (1626-1669) under the pseudonym, le Sieur de Hedouville, and ran from its first number in 1665, January 5 to the thirteenth number in 1665, March 30, when it was suppressed by the establishment. It resumed publication on 1666, January 4 under the editorship of le Sr. G. P. (that is, abbé Jean Galloys) for the years 1666-1674, then by abbée La Roque for 1674-1687, by Louis Cousin for 1687-1701, and a long sequence of other editors. It ceased publication in 1792 as a result of the French Revolution, and did not resume regular publication until 1816, under the name Journal des Savants under the auspices of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institut de France. The early years of this journal are available in a freely available version from Gallica, which, however, is comprised of only image files, with no searchable text files. We have documented a selection of journal-title abbreviations to be found in the first few years, from the first issue of Lundy V. Januier, M. DC. LXV. [1665] up to Lundy 2. Janvier M. DC. LXXV. [1675], p.13, of this journal at Journal-Title Abbreviations in Old Journals in the Repertorium Veterrimarum Societatum Litterariarum. |
