Gallimard, 1911-2011. Un siècle d’édition

In 1911 the Editions de la Nouvelle Revue française came to be. A man-orchestra was at the helm, the one who would give his name to the new publishing house, Gaston Gallimard. One hundred years after its foundation, Gallimard remains the number one independent publishing house in France and it displays a unique fund of 40 000 titles. The catalogue that accompanies a retrospective at the Bibliothèque nationale de France until 3 July 2011, aims at being a photo album (from André Gide to Le Clézio, without forgetting Foucault and Modiano), a historic summary (the development towards the international market, the adventures of Temps modernes and the Pléiade, etc. ) as well as an interpretation manual – with in particular facsimiles of fascinating reading cards signed by Malraux, Queneau or Camus or lists of titles for works being translated. For Gone with the wind by Margaret Michell, Jean Paulhan gets the top award for his implacable Autant en emporte le vent…

• Gallimard, 1911-2011. Un siècle d’édition, directed by Alban Cerisier and Pascal Fouché, Gallimard, 2011, 408 p., 49 €.