During the past decade, more and more attention has been paid to the role that certain publishers played in French literary life of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Books about Louis Hachette, ...

WHEN Hitler’s ambassador, Otto Abetz, arrived in Paris in the fateful summer of 1940, he made this celebrated remark: “To control France, one must control the Banque do France and the Nouvelle Revue ...

Founded in 1911 by Gaston Gallimard, the grandfather of today’s president and CEO Antoine Gallimard, as Les Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), Gallimard has been home to many of the most ...

Once upon a time – or rather, il était une fois – there was a young man of good family, son of a rich amateur art collector, vaguely in search of employment. His father had suggested he take a ...

Investigation'Successions season II' (4/6). Gallimard's history is marked by a major rift within the family: the ousting, in 1984, of one of the sons, Christian, to the advantage of his brother ...

The renaming of half a Paris street as rue Gaston Gallimard on 15th June to mark the publisher's 100th anniversary is being challenged by a campaign "Sauvez votre bottin". The slogan is a nod to ...