Plon is a French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 book publishing company, founded in 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers.

The Plon family were Walloons

Walloons

Walloons are a French-speaking people who live in Belgium, principally in Wallonia. Walloons are a distinctive community within Belgium, important historical and anthropological criteria bind Walloons to the French people. More generally, the term also refers to the inhabitants of the Walloon...

 coming from Nivelle

Nivelle

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, France

France

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. One of their ancestors is probably the Danish

Denmark

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 typographer

Typography

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 Jehan Plon who lived at the end of the 16th century.

History

The Editions Plon were created in 1852, by Henri Plon and his two brothers. They were given the title of Imprimeur de l’Empereur (Emperor publisher) and published the correspondence of Louis XIII of France

Louis XIII of France

Louis XIII was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1610 to 1643.Louis was only eight years old when he succeeded his father. His mother, Marie de Medici, acted as regent during Louis' minority...

, Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette ; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I....

 and Napoleon I of France

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

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They were acquired by the Groupe de La Cité

Groupe de La Cité

Presses de la Cité is a French publishing company. In 1988, with the merger of the publishing companies Presses de la Cité and Larousse-Nathan, Groupe de La Cité became the second largest publishing company in France and the tenth in the world. It was acquired by Vivendi Universal Publishing and is...

, which was later acquired in 1988 by Havas

Havas

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In 2001, Havas is itself absorbed par Vivendi

Vivendi

Vivendi SA is a French international media conglomerate with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications, the Internet, and video games. It is headquartered in Paris.- History :...

, then called Vivendi Universal. The Vivendi group facing financial troubles, sell several publishing companies, including Plon, to Wendel Investissement

De Wendel family

The de Wendel Family is an industrialist family from Lorraine, France.In the 19th and 20th centuries the family gained might both industrial and political...

, which put it under the umbrella of the Editis

Editis

Editis is the second-largest publishing group in France, created in January 2004 by the regrouping of approximately 60% publishing assets of Vivendi, the other part having been sold to Lagardère Group....

 group. In 2008, Editis is sold to the Spanish

Spain

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 group Planeta

Planeta

Planeta Corporación, S.R.L., doing business as Grupo Planeta, is a Spanish media group based in Barcelona. The company operates in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. Editorial Planeta, its flagship, was founded in 1949. Planeta owns over 70 publishing houses worldwide. It publishes the...

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