This article is rewritten from my MA thesis, ‘The Paris Reception of Bohuslav Martinů between 1923 and 1940’, compiled in 2005 from material collected during my sabbatical at the Université de Paris–Sorbonne. The article presents a continuous picture of the forms and changes of the reception of Bohuslav Martinů‘s personality and work in the contemporary Paris press during the course of the seventeen years of his life there. A survey of the reviews of his work, year by year, from twenty-two selected periodicals, is supplemented by a description of the periodicals and reviewers that are essential for the correct evaluation of the reviews.