Gaston Gallimard

Gaston Gallimard
Gaston Gallimard,1900
Born	18 January 1881 Paris, France
Died	25 December 1975(1975-12-25)(aged 94) Neuilly-sur-Seine,France
Occupation	Publisher
Parent	Paul Gallimard(father)
Family	Claude Gallimard(son) Simone Gallimard(daughter in law)

Gaston Gallimard(French:[ɡalimaːʁ];18 January 1881 – 25 December 1975) was a Frenchpublisher.

He foundedLa Nouvelle Revue Françaisein 1908, together withAndré GideandJean Schlumberger. In 1911 the trio established La Nouvelle Revue Française. In 1919, he created his own publishing house, named Librairie Gallimard, though he continued to work closely with the NRF.Éditions Gallimardis one of the leading French publishing houses.

In World War II during the German occupation of Paris a"round-table"of French and German intellectuals met at theGeorges V Hotelincluding Gallimard, the writersErnst Jünger,Paul Morand,Jean Cocteau,andHenry Millon de Montherlantand the legal scholarCarl Schmitt.

Gallimard, in October 1932, founded theMarianne (magazine: 1932-40).

Works

Texts by Gaston Gallimard

• Friedrich Hebbel,Judith,five-act tragedy translated from German by Gaston Gallimard & Pierre de Lanux. Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue française, 1911.
• « Il a inventé des auteurs, un public »,En souvenir de René Julliard,Paris, René Julliard, 1963, p. 50.

Correspondences

• Jean Paulhan/ Gaston Gallimard,Correspondance,edition established, presented and annotated by Laurence Brisset, Gallimard, 2011.
• Marcel Proust/ Gaston Gallimard,Correspondance,edition, presented and annotated byPascal Fouché,Paris, Gallimard, 1989.
• Jacques Rivière/ Gaston Gallimard,Correspondance 1911-1924,edition, presented and annotated by Pierre-Edmond Robert in collaboration with Alain Rivière, Paris, 1881

Bibliography

• Pierre Assouline,Gaston Gallimard: Un demi-siècle d’édition française,Balland, 1984, Folio, 2006
• Catalogue Gallimard. 1911-2011,1711 p.
• Gallimard. Un siècle d'édition,Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallimard, 2011
• Alban Cerisier,Gallimard. Un éditeur à l'œuvre,Gallimard, 2011, series "Découvertes Gallimard"#569

External links

• Gaston Gallimardon Babelio
• Gaston Gallimardon Encyclopædia Britannica
• Gallimard: 100 years in publishingonThe Guardian(26 March 2011)