Once upon a time – or rather, il était une fois – there was a young man of good family, son of a rich amateur art collector, vaguely in search of employment. His father had suggested he take a ...

Gallimard was founded in 1911 by Gaston Gallimard, the grandfather of today’s president and CEO Antoine Gallimard, as Les Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF). The publisher has been home to ...

WHEN Hitler’s ambassador, Otto Abetz, arrived in Paris in the fateful summer of 1940, he made this celebrated remark: “To control France, one must control the Banque do France and the Nouvelle Revue ...

During the past decade, more and more attention has been paid to the role that certain publishers played in French literary life of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Books about Louis Hachette, ...

Sharjah - As part of its long-term mission to build communication bridges between the Arabic language and other languages of the world and to position UAE as a beacon for cross-cultural values, ...