Les Cahiers du Sud (literally “The Southern Notebooks”) was a French literary journal published in Marseille.
It was founded in 1914, as Fortunio, by the teenage Marcel Pagnol, although publication ended a few months later at the outbreak of the Great War.
[2] Through the poet André Gaillard (1898–1929), the magazine published surrealist writers like René Crevel, Paul Éluard and Benjamin Péret, and ex-surrealists like Antonin Artaud, Robert Desnos.
[3] Other contributors included Gabriel Audisio, René Nelli, Simone Weil, Benjamin Fondane, Jean Audard, Marguerite Yourcenar, Walter Benjamin and Paul Valéry.
[4] In 1945 Ballard drew up a new editorial board with Jean Tortel and Pierre Guerre.