 In fact, he dedicated his collection of "Dernières Poésies" to his many friends, including Hérbert, Madame de la Grangerie, Maxime Du Camp and Princess Mathilde Bonaparte.Gautier spent the majority of his career as a journalist at "La Presse" and later on at "Le Moniteur universel".He saw journalistic criticism as a means to a middle-class standard of living.