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Fayard

Founded: 1857


Fayard is a 150-year-old publishing house featuring a wide array of genres across more than 8 000 titles. Its list consists of political figures, journalists, thinkers and novelists. Behind its walls, authors are discovered, sponsored, championed, becoming even, for some of them, “classics”.

Fayard is a brand name for intellectual essays that expand one’s knowledge, fuel public debate and push forward our society; for extensive investigations, vital tools for a democracy; for ground-breaking political and current-affairs non-fiction; for popular fiction, combining mass-market appeal and high-quality storytelling; a brand name too for foreign literature of global significance. At the heart of Fayard’s DNA is the wish to hand to everyone the keys to understanding our world. Always looking toward the future, Fayard ventures in 2023 into the world of graphic novels with Fayard Graffik and breathes new life into its backlist with the new Oeuvres Libres collection.

Several imprints have joined the Fayard ranks throughout the years: the paperback imprint Pluriel, Mazarine, Pauvert, and Mille et Une Nuits.

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  • Pluriel

    Pluriel publishes non-fiction paperbacks in the social sciences, philosophy, history, economics and current events. Authors include Edgar Morin, Francis Wolff, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, Thomas Porcher, Pierre de Villiers and Germain Louvet. Recent successes include L’Histoire du monde au XVe siècle [World History in the 15th Century] and L’Histoire du monde au XIXe siècle [World History in the 19th Century].

  • Mazarine

    Mazarine was founded in 1979 and earned a place in the spotlight four years later when it published Françoise Giroud’s scandalous roman à clef Le Bon Plaisir [The Good Pleasure]. Since it relaunched in March 2016, the imprint has been a laboratory for the emergence of future trends, underpinned by feminist activism and a rebellious mindset. It is home to authors from all different backgrounds, welcoming activist memoirs, new heroines in both fiction and non-fiction, and new romance. Mazarine is the library of our dreams.  

  • Pauvert

    Founded in 1979 by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Editions Pauvert became a Fayard imprint in 1999. It has always stood out in the French publishing landscape by welcoming authors whose freedom verges on insolence. Pauvert published the first edition of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade and has also brought Leslie Jamison, François Bégaudeau, Georges Bataille and Boris Vian to French readers.

  • Mille et une nuits

    Éditions Mille et Une Nuits launched its La Petite Collection in 1993 with Lettre sur le bonheur [Letter on Happiness] by Epicurus, which sold over 100,000 copies. It publishes books that are accessible in terms of both size and price. Six hundred titles later, having published Seneca, Boris Vian, Sun Tzu, Montaigne, George Orwell and the SCUM Manifesto, it continues to bring readers an eclectic range of essential texts in the fields of literature, the social sciences and fine art. 

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