Éditions Gallimard - Introduction

Introduction

5, rue Sébastien-Bottin
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France
Telephone: ( + 33) 01 49 54 42 00
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Web site: http://www.gallimard.fr

Private Company
Founded: 1911
Sales: $317 million (2003)
NAIC: 511120 Periodical Publishers; 511130 Book Publishers; 422920 Book, Periodical, and Newspaper Wholesalers; 451211 Book Stores; 511210 Software Publishers.

Éditions Gallimard is the third-largest publishing group in France. It consists of a number of imprints, including Éditions de la Pléiade, NRF, Denoël, Mercure de France, the Du Monde Entier imprint of foreign authors, and its paperback imprint Folio. The company publishes approximately 750 new titles every year. Gallimard's backlist catalogue of 17,000 titles includes most of the great French and international authors of the twentieth century, including Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Genet, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Philip Roth, Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Michel Foucault. Gallimard's reputation also rests on the Pléiade collection of classic authors and Gallimard-Jeunesse, its renowned children's book division. Gallimard distributes its books through La Sodis, its distribution company. Gallimard also operates a handful of bookstores, including Schoenhof's Foreign Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts.