French publishing house
Calmann-Lévy is a French publishing house founded in 1836 byMichel Lévy asMichel Lévy frères . His brotherKalmus Calmann Lévy joined in 1844. After Michel's death in 1875, the firm was renamedCalmann Lévy .[ 1]
In 1836,Michel Lévy (1821–1875) founded the publishing house ofMichel Lévy frères . In 1844, his brotherKalmus "Calmann" Lévy (1819–1891) joined the publishing house.[ 2] Calmann Lévy .[ 1] [ 2]
By 1875, the company was among the foremost publishing houses of Europe. It was the publisher of most of the important French authors of the second half of the 19th century, includingBalzac ,Baudelaire ,René Bazin ,Gabriele D'Annunzio ,Dumas ,Flaubert ,Victor Hugo ,[ 3] Lamartine ,Ernest Renan ,George Sand , andStendhal . In 1891, it published the memoirs ofCharles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord ,[ 4] Alexis de Tocqueville .[ 5] Anatole France ,Pierre Loti andProust .[ 6] [ 7]
DuringNazi occupation , Gaston Lévy was interned, and the publishing company, run by theGermans , was renamed Éditions Balzac in 1943. After theliberation , the company was headed by Léon Pioton.Authors edited during the postwar period included:Arthur Koestler ,Elia Kazan ,Anne Frank , and laterDonna Leon ,Nicolas Hulot ,Patricia Cornwell ,Guillaume Musso , among others.[ 8]
Since 1993, Calmann-Lévy has been owned by publisherHachette (which is in turn owned byLagardère Group ).[ 8]
Action, amour, aventure Les années du... Bibliothèque contemporaine[ 9] Bibliothèque des voyageurs Bibliothèque dramatique Bibliothèque littéraire Bibliothèque théâtrale Bibliothèque des chefs-d'ieuvre du roman contemporain Calmann-Lévy collection Calmann-Lévy collection nouvelle Châteaux, décors de l'histoire Collection bleue Collection engagements Collection Hetzel et Lévy Collection le prisme Collection les romans de la rose Collection le zodiaque Collection masques et visages Collection Michel Lévy Collection Nelson: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature Collection Presses Pocket Collection roman d'ailleurs Diaspora[ 10] Dimensions SF[ 11] Edition du centenaire E. Guillaume et Cie Essai société Collection France de toujours et d'aujourd'hui L'Heure H Interstices[ 12] Liberté de l'esprit[ 13] Le Livre de poche[ 14] Médailles d'or Nouvelle collection historique Nouvelle collection illustrée Nouvelle collection Michel Lévy L'Ordre des choses[ 15] Perspectives économiques Pour nos enfants Pourpre[ 16] Questions d'actualité Le Romantisme des classiques[ 17] Temps & continents Traduit de[ 18] ^a b "La fulgurante saga familiale des frères Levy, inventeurs de l'édition moderne" .Meilleur Site Dédié À La Culture Juive (in French). Retrieved2025-08-26 .^a b Paris Dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph (5 July 1891)."CALMANN-LEVY'S DEATH" .The New York Times . Retrieved2 November 2020 . ^ "CALMANN LEVY, Kalmus Lévy dit — - Juliette Drouet, Lettres à Victor Hugo" .www.juliettedrouet.org (in French).Archived from the original on 2025-06-08. Retrieved2025-08-26 .^ "TALLEYRAND'S MEMOIRS.; MEMOIRS OF THE PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND. Edited with a preface and notes by the Duo de Broglie of the French Academy. Translated by Mrs. Angus Hall. Vol. IV. G.P. Putnam's Sons. New-York and London. 1891. MEMOIRES DU PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND. Publies avec une preface el des notes par le Duo de Broglie dedl'Acadmie Francaise, IV. Paris: Calmann-Levy. Editeur: 1891. New-York: Boston" .The New York Times . Retrieved2 November 2020 .^ "DE TOCQUEVILLE MEMOIRS; AMERICA, LOUIS PHILIPPE, AND LOUIS NAPOLEON. SOUVENIRS DE ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE. Publies par le Comte de Tocqueville. Paris; Calmann Levy. New-York; Amblard & Meyer Brothers" .The New York Times . Retrieved2 November 2020 .^ "CALMANN-LEVY, 77, PUBLISHER, IS DEAD; Head of the House Which First Printed Works of Anatole France Succumbs in Paris" .The New York Times . Retrieved2 November 2020 .^ "Letter from Gaston Calmann-Lévy to Marcel Proust, 25 June 1918" .www.library.illinois.edu .University of Illinois Library . Retrieved2 November 2020 .^a b Mollier, Jean-Yves (2014).Michel & Calmann Lévy: Ou la naissance de l'édition moderne 1836-1891 ISBN 978-2-7021-5100-6 . Retrieved2 November 2020 . ^ Noriac, Jules (1884).Paris tel qu'il est {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link )^ "se:"Collection Diaspora" - Search Results" .search.worldcat.org . Retrieved2025-08-26 .^ "nooSFere - Collection" .www.noosfere.org . Retrieved2025-08-26 .^ "nooSFere - Collection" .www.noosfere.org . Retrieved2025-08-26 .^ "se:"Liberté de l'esprit." - Search Results" .search.worldcat.org . Retrieved2025-08-26 .^ Vercors,Le silence de la mer, et autres récits ^ Chapuis, Robert (1976).Les chrétiens et le socialisme : témoignage et bilan ISBN 978-2-7021-0095-0 ^ "se:"Collection pourpre" - Search Results" .search.worldcat.org . Retrieved2025-08-26 .^ Deschanel, Émile Auguste Étienne Martin (1891).Boileau, Charles Perrault ^ "se:"Collection "Traduit de"." - Search Results" .search.worldcat.org . Retrieved2025-08-26 .
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