From the very first, Buloz had secured the rising literary talent of the day for the _Revue_. Alfred de Vigny contributed to it successively _Stello_, _Laurette_ and _Le Capitaine Renaud_; Alexandre Dumas, whose jealousy was only aroused later on, published therein his _Impressions de Voyage_; Balzac wrote for it, as did also Nodier, Victor Hugo, Barbier, Brizeux, Merimee, Lerminier, George Sand, Jouffry, Alfred de Musset, Sainte-Beuve, Gustave Planche and Augustin Thierry, whose _Nouvelles lettres sur l'Histoire de France_ first appeared in the _Revue_. In 1840, M. Thiers, while president of the council, wrote an article for the _Revue_. Buloz, who greatly admired the statesman-historian, pressed him strongly the following year to write upon the Eastern Question. M. Thiers, then at Lille, was about to go to Germany in order to examine the battle-fields of Napoleon for his great work. We find him writing to Buloz a letter which is not less interesting at the present time than it was thirty-six years ago: "I often think of writing for you an article on the Eastern Question, but it is somewhat difficult for me to leave my work. However, I am preparing to put pen to paper in order to carry out my promise. I must tell you that with an ever-increasing taste for _la grande politique_, I daily care less and less for _la petite politique_, which consists in simply providing each day for the requirements of the hour. This daily bread upon which men live at Paris is repugnant to my tastes. I am a strong partisan of our institutions, for I know of none other possible, but they convert the government of the country into an association for the merest chit-chat.... It is therefore for me a real sacrifice to return to the narrow sphere of affairs of the present day, and to speak or write thereon. I am happy where I am, and in doing what I am now about.... Still, I will make an effort to write for you before leaving for Germany. I see nothing very important except the Eastern Question, which is not a _question du moment_, and which will outlive us."