Private company

Éditions Gallimard

French publishing company

Éditions Gallimard (French: ), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Gaston Gallimard in 1911, the publisher is now majority-owned by his grandson Antoine Gallimard.2 It is part of Groupe Madrigall.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1911Founded1
  • Industrybook publishing1
  • HeadquartersParis1
  • Founded inParis1
  • Websitewww.gallimard.fr
  • Legal formpublic limited company with a board of directors (n.o.s.)1

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Gallimard, rue Gallimard
Photo: Remi Mathis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Éditions Gallimard (French: [edisjɔ̃ ɡalimaːʁ]), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles.2

Corporate structure

Éditions Gallimard is part of a group headed by Groupe Madrigall. 18 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Éditions Gallimard reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Founded by Gaston Gallimard in 1911, in Paris.1

The publisher was founded on 31 May 1911 in Paris by Gaston Gallimard, André Gide, and Jean Schlumberger as Les Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF).

From its 31 May 1911 founding until June 1919, Nouvelle Revue Française published one hundred titles including La Jeune Parque by Paul Valéry. NRF published the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, which became the first Prix Goncourt-awarded book published by the company. Nouvelle Revue Française adopted the name "Librairie Gallimard" in 1919.

During the occupation of France in World War II, Gaston Gallimard was hosted in Carcassonne by poet Joë Bousquet. He returned to Paris in October 1940 to enter discussions with the Third Reich authorities, who wished to control his publishing company. It was agreed that Gaston Gallimard would still control his company if he collaborated with the authorities and published pro-Hitler writings.

From Wikipedia’s article on Éditions Gallimard, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Leadership

Who has led Éditions Gallimard, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

Catalogue

Éditions Gallimard's best-selling authors include Albert Camus (29 million copies), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (26.3 million copies) and J. K. Rowling (whose Harry Potter series sold 26 million copies). Other important authors include Salman Rushdie, Roald Dahl, Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Philip Roth, George Orwell, Jack Kerouac, Pablo Neruda and John Steinbeck.

As of 2011, its catalog consists of 36 Prix Goncourt winners, 38 writers who have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and ten writers who have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In 2010 the company had a turnover of €230 million, and over 1,000 employees.

Gallimard acquired Groupe Flammarion from RCS MediaGroup in 2012.

Subsidiaries

Publishing houses

Éditions Denoël

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Les Éditions du Mercure de France

Nouveaux Loisirs (tourist guides)

Groupe Flammarion

Futuropolis

Gallimard Jeunesse

Éditions P.O.L. (88%)

Éditions de La Table Ronde

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade

Diffusion and distribution

SODIS

SOCADIS (joint venture with Flammarion)

Centre de Diffusion de l'Édition

France Export Diffusion

From Wikipedia’s article on Éditions Gallimard, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Subsidiaries

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. 2005Acquired Éditions Verticales1
  2. 1946Acquired Éditions Denoël1

Timeline

  1. 1911Founded Founded in Paris1

Sources

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