This paper evokes the first decade of our journal’s existence (1971-1980), linked as it was to the creation of the Société des études romantiques (Society for the study of romanticism) a year earlier by Pierre Barbéris and a group of teacher-scholars representing a variety of university institutions. The paper evokes the way the journal functioned when it was published twice yearly and its last pages mainly chronicled the research in romanticism and the 19th century, which were then particularly ebullient. The way this first Romantisme thought about romanticism and its “impossible unity”, in a spirit of pluri-disciplinarity and internationalism, with primary focus on its philosophy, is considered. But the journal also manifested a kind of collective commitment in favour of romanticism, as the title and platform of the editorial of its first issue testifies – “Pour Romantisme” – “For Romanticism, For Romantisme”.