L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux (, ), abbreviated as ICC, was a monthly French magazine consisting of questions and answers of its readers on various encyclopedic topics. It focused mainly on art, history, genealogy, literature, and religions.
History The magazine appeared from 1864L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, Issues 640-650, 1864 - Questions and answers to 1940. Initially it focused on the arts and all sciences.Jesper Lützen, Around Caspar Wessel and the Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers: Proceedings of the Wessel Symposium at The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, August 11-15 1998. Invited Papers, 2001, It reappeared in April 1951, first under a slightly different name.
A high-ranking official of Scottish origin, Charles Read, under the pseudonym of Carle de Rash, was the founder and the first director. He took as a model the Notes and Queries, published in London, and based it on the same principle. Genealogical and nobility issues gained in importance following the reappearance in 1951.
Since 1981 ICC is not published in September, reducing the number of issues from 12 to 11 per year. It seized publication in 2016.
Editors Octave Lebesgue (1900–1931) Philippe du Puy de Clinchamps (1913–1971), founder of the new series in 1951 Lucien Boisnormand Patrice du Puy de Clinchamps, son of Philippe Philippe Houël de Chaulieu Charles-Henri de Sommyèvre
Other contributors Paul Masson, between 1879 and 1895 Gustave Bord
Price The ICC was sold by annual subscription: 1985: 400 French francs 1990: 485 French francs 1995: 608 French francs 2000: 635 French francs 2012: 99 Euro
References
External links L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, 1864-1937, Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Gallica Archives at HathiTrust