Antoine Gallimard


Antoine Gallimard (born 19 April 1947 in Paris, is a French publisher and company boss, president of éditions Gallimard and.

Biography

Antoine Gallimard is one of the four children of Claude Gallimard and Simone Gallimard, son and daughter-in-law of Gaston Gallimard, the founder of éditions Gallimard in 1911. Antoine Gallimard has four daughters including Charlotte, appointed CEO of Casterman in November 2012.
Claude Gallimard succeeded his father, Gaston Gallimard, at the head of Éditions Gallimard in 1975. Antoine Gallimard was entrusted in 1988 by his father to take the reins of the publishing group whence the eldest son of the family, Christian Gallimard, the designated heir, left after a deep disagreement with his father in 1984. In spite of his youth and his relative lack of experience, Antoine Gallimard imposed himself and succeeded in bringing out Gallimard of the family conflict in which they had almost foundered.
In 2000, after considering buying the electronic publishing company Bibliopolis, he abruptly put an end to this project. On 5 January 2003, Antoine Gallimard was able to announce that he and his close associates in the holding company Madrigall now owned 98% of the capital of the family business, following the repurchase of minority shareholders. In February 2011, in an interview with Télérama, he explained the state of the Gallimard house, a hundred years after its creation:
Antoine Gallimard was president of the. He is president of the "Association pour le développement de la librairie de création".

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