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Groupe Flammarion

French publisher

Field	Value
image	Flammarion logo.svg
parent	Groupe Madrigall
founded	1876
founder	Ernest Flammarion
country	France
headquarters	Café Voltaire, Paris
publications	Books, Magazines
imprints	Autrement, Casterman, J'ai Lu, Jungle
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Groupe Flammarion () is a French publishing group, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876 by Ernest Flammarion, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops (La Hune and Flammarion Center). Flammarion became part of the Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup in 2000. Éditions Gallimard acquired Flammarion from RCS MediaGroup in 2012. Subsidiaries include Casterman. Its headquarters in Paris are in the building that was the former Café Voltaire (named in honour of the writer and philosopher Voltaire), located on the Place de l'Odeon in the current 6th arrondissement of Paris.

Flammarion is a subsidiary of Groupe Madrigall, the third largest French publishing group.

History

Ernest Flammarion successfully launched his family publishing venture in 1875 with the Treaty of Popular Astronomy of his brother, the astronomer Camille Flammarion. The firm published Émile Zola, Maupassant, and Jules Renard, as well as Hector Malot, Colette, and a wide list of medical, scientific, geographical, historical works, and various autobiographies, including also the Père Castor children's series.

One of its early commercial successes was Édouard Drumont's virulent antisemitic tract La France juive ("Jewish France"), which Flammarion published in 1886 and reissued several times. During the Nazi occupation it reissued the book as recently as 1943.

Imprints

Arthaud
Aubier
Autrement
Baam!
Casterman
Champs
Chan-Ok
Climats
Etonnants Classiques
Flammarion
Flammarion Jeunesse
Flammarion Québec
GF
J'ai Lu
Jungle Editions
KSTR
La Maison Rustique
Librio
Père Castor
Pygmalion
Pygmalion Fantasy
Sakka
Skira-Flammarion

References

Page, Benedicte. (6 September 2012). "Flammarion sold to Gallimard".
Beuve-Méry, Alain. (26 June 2015). "Antoine Gallimard, seul maître à bord du troisième groupe d'édition français". [[Le Monde]].
"Qui sommes nous?".
"La France juive; essai d'histoire contemporaine".

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