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| Parent company | Groupe Madrigall |
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| Founded | 1876 |
| Founder | Ernest Flammarion |
| Country of origin | France |
| Headquarters location | Café Voltaire,Paris |
| Publication types | Books,Magazines |
| Imprints | Autrement,Casterman, J'ai Lu, Jungle |
| Official website | editions |
Groupe Flammarion (French:[gʁupflamaʁjɔ̃]) is a French publishing group, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876 byErnest Flammarion, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops (La Hune and Flammarion Center). Flammarion became part of theItalian media conglomerateRCS MediaGroup in 2000.Éditions Gallimard acquired Flammarion from RCS MediaGroup in 2012.[1] Subsidiaries includeCasterman. Its headquarters inParis are in the building that was the formerCafé Voltaire (named in honour of the writer and philosopherVoltaire), located on thePlace de l'Odeon in the current6th arrondissement of Paris.
Flammarion is a subsidiary ofGroupe Madrigall, the third largest French publishing group.[2]
Ernest Flammarion successfully launched his family publishing venture in 1875 with theTreaty of Popular Astronomy of his brother, astronomerCamille Flammarion. The firm publishedÉmile Zola,Maupassant, andJules Renard, as well asHector Malot,Colette, and a wide list of medical, scientific, geographical, historical works as well as various autobiographies, including also thePère Castor children's series.[3]
One of its early commercial successes wasÉdouard Drumont's virulent antisemitic tractLa France juive ("Jewish France"), which Flammarion published in 1886[4] and reissued several times. During theNazi occupation it reissued the book as recently as 1943.
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