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The two main French groups, Hachette and Editis, are preparing to change ownership. This plunges into great uncertainty their leaders, publishers and authors, who wonder about their future.
In her office as CEO of Fayard, Isabelle Saporta has the radiant, jubilant energy of someone who has just done a good job and does not hide it. On the coffee table, the big book she is publishing this fall: the time of battlesnew volume of the memoirs of Nicolas Sarkozy, who left the Observatory editions to join the house of the Lagardère group (of which he has been a director since 2021). “I fought like crazy for a year to convince him, says the publisher, ecstatic over the two photo books of the book, a sort of souvenir album of Sarko in the great family of heads of state. I even bought the paper and reserved the printing slots before having his final agreement. The former president sent his manuscript on May 16. “I worked day and night on it,” adds Saporta, conquered, who sees in Sarkozy a man “inhabited by a vision of France”.
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