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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The literary base of French cinema is almost as important as its auteur tradition. Variety interviews Antoine Gallimard, president of Madrigall, France’s third largest publishing house. Every year, a ...

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, ...