Éditions Julliard is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1942 by René Julliard.

René Julliard was known as a discoverer and publisher of talents, in particular Françoise Sagan

Françoise Sagan

Françoise Sagan – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois...

 and Jean d'Ormesson

Jean d'Ormesson

Count Jean Lefèvre d'Ormesson is a French novelist whose work mostly consists of partially or totally autobiographic novels.- Life :...

. After Julliard's death in July 1962, the managing director, Christian Bourgois, took over the publishing house. Éditions Julliard was soon repurchased by the publishing house Presses 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...

. Christian Bourgois created his own publishing house in 1966.

In 1953, André Frank and Jean-Louis Barrault created the review of the Renaud-Barrault books (Les Cahiers Renaud-Barrault), published at Éditions Julliard until Julliard's death, then at Éditions Gallimard.

Éditions Julliard was revived in 1988, when Christian Bourgois decided to appoint Élisabeth Gille as literary director. They sought out and published new talents, such as Lydie Salvayre

Lydie Salvayre

Lydie Salvayre is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist....

 and Régine Detambel, but also the great names of Éditions Julliard, like Françoise Sagan.

Christian Bourgois and Élisabeth Gille left the publishing house at the beginning of 1992, following internal disagreements with the Presses de la Cité. François Bourin succeeded them until 1995.

Starting in 1995, Betty Mialet and Bernard Barrault are managing directors of Éditions Julliard. They published, among others, Philippe Besson

Philippe Besson

Philippe Besson is a French writer.-Life:In 1999, Besson, a law graduate, was inspired to write his first novel, En l'absence des hommes while reading of accounts of ex-serviceman during the First World War.The novel, with its daring inclusion of Marcel Proust as a central character, won the...

, Jacques-André Bertrand, Laurent Bénégui, Philippe Djian

Philippe Djian

Philippe Djian is a popular French author of Armenian descent.Djian graduated from the ESJ Paris. After a period of wandering and odd jobs, he published a volume of short stories, 50 contre 1 , and then the novels Bleu comme l'enfer and Zone érogène before gaining fame with his subsequent novels...

, Yasmina Khadra

Yasmina Khadra

Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul .-Biography:Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship...

, Mazarine Pingeot

Mazarine Pingeot

Mazarine Marie Pingeot , who changed her name to Mazarine Marie Pingeot-Mitterrand in 2005, is a writer, journalist and professor.-Life:...

, Jean Teulé

Jean Teulé

Jean Teulé is a French novelist, cartoonist and screenwriter. He is the partner of the actress Miou-Miou.- Works :Books* Bloody Mary, plot by Jean Vautrin, Glénat, 1984* Filles de nuit, Glénat, 1985...

, Denis Robert

Denis Robert

Denis Robert is a French freelance journalist and a writer. Robert formerly worked for Libération newspaper for 12 years....

, and Danièle Saint-Bois.

External links

Official site of Éditions Julliard