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From Pat Deveney's database:
Union Spirite Bordelaise, L'.
Revue de l'Enseignement des Esprits.
Other titles: L'Union Spirite ou les Mystères d'Outre-Tombe Devoiles
1865--1867? Weekly (4 issues a month)
Bordeaux, France.
Language: French.
Editor: Auguste Bez, editeur scientifique.
Succeeds: Voix d'Outre-Tombe; La Ruche; Sauveur des Peuples; Medium Evangelique
1/1, June 1865-May 1867(?).
32-24-16 pp. This was a pure Kardecist journal, filled with discourses from the spirits on abstract themes and occasional reviews and articles on current topics. It was formed by the merger of La Voix d'Outre-Tombe, La Ruche Spirite Bordelaise, and Sauveur des Peuples and compensated those with unexpired subscriptions to those journals with free issues of this journal: 6 months to Ruche, 4 months to Sauveur, and 3 months to Voix. M. Bez was already the editor of La Voix d'Outre-Tombe. He was a medium in his own right but came to prominence when he edited the communications of writing medium Jean Hilaire, adding his own experiences in spiritism and stories about D.D. Home and others, and published them as Les miracles de nos Jours in 1864. The journal carried regular excerpts from the Banner of Light and replies to the "anti-spiritist" journals and clergy of the day and discussions of the relationship of spiritism and Catholicism, as well as notices and articles on the Davenport Brothers, D.D. Home, H. Melville Fay, et al. The Year-Book of Spiritualism for 1871 lists the journal as still extant at the time, though the copy in BNF ends in 1866. At some point the journal changed its name to La Union Spirite ou les Mystères d'Outre-tombe Devoiles. BNF.
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