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Chasseguet-Smirgel stresses the links between the Parisian Psychoanalytic Society and the Revue, both of which were celebrating their fiftieth anniversaries in 1977. She discusses the early history of psychoanalysis in France, evoking the literary and artistic ambience of the 1920's in Paris at the time that initial psychoanalytic efforts were being carried out in France. Translations into French, however, were late in appearing: The Interpretation of Dreams was not translated until 1926. The impetus for the early analytic developments came largely from French-speaking Swiss analysts. An early worker was Mme. Eugénie Sokolnicka, a lay analyst who was herself analyzed by Jung, by Freud, and later by Ferenczi. She in turn analyzed two founding members of the Parisian analytic group, Edouard Pichon and René Laforgue. The author traces the founding of the Parisian analytic society and the roles played by René Laforgue and Marie Bonaparte. The Society was founded in 1926, with ten members, including Laforgue, Pichon, Loewenstein, and Raymond de Saussure. The first conference of French-speaking analysts took place in August 1926, and the Revue made its appearance in 1927. This article includes brief biographies of many of these founding figures, as well as an account of the early years of the Society, its development during the 1930's, the activities which were still carried on to some extent during the Occupation, the "boom" in psychoanalysis after the war, the growth of the Society, and the subsequent schisms.