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| Founded | 1921; 104 years ago (1921) |
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| Founder | Paul Angoulvent |
| Country of origin | France |
| Headquarters location | Paris |
| Publication types | Books, Journals |
| Official website | www |
Presses universitaires de France (PUF; English:University Press of France), founded in 1921 byPaul Angoulvent (1899–1976), is a French publishing house.
The financial and legal structure of the Presses Universitaires de France was completely restructured in 2000, when the originalcooperative structure was abandoned. Companies that then took stakes in PUF includedFlammarion Publishing (17% in 2000, 18% currently) and insurerMaaf Assurances (9%, 8% currently).[1] In 2006, another insurance giantGarantie Mutuelle des Fonctionnaires (GMF) injected capital into the PUF, taking a 16.4% stake in the publisher.[2]
The paperback seriesQue sais-je? ("What do I know?", a quotation fromMontaigne) was created by Paul Angoulvent in 1941. Specialists are invited to ruminate on specific themes in texts of up to 128 pages each. Today, there are close to 4,000 titles by 2,500 authors, constituting the world's largest paperback encyclopedia, covering a broad range of subjects. Many of the titles have been translated into up to forty-three languages. By 2004, the PUF had sold around 160 million copies of titles in the series. Its ISSN number is 0768-0066.
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