His publishing house has just released him within a year of a presidential election in which he seems more and more involved. “I received a letter last week from my publishing house telling me that he no longer wanted to edit me”, revealed Eric Zemmour on Monday in the show Facing the info, which he co-hosts with Christine Kelly with on CNews.
Albin Michel, a publishing house which had published five works by the far-right columnist, including French suicide in 2014 and French destiny in 2018, took the decision to no longer collaborate with the polemicist.
“I am a little disturbed”
On the set, Eric Zemmour said floor on “a book”, “which was to be released in mid-September” at Albin Michel. And to explain: “They used the presidential election as an excuse, the political context, etc. I find myself without a publisher when my book is almost finished. I only have the conclusion to write. “” I’m a little disturbed, “he said again.
“It will be an extremely powerful work, I am not afraid to affirm that it will experience the same publishing success as Le Suicide français”, had nevertheless affirmed, Lise Boëll, “non-fiction” editorial director of Albin Michel, in an interview with Current Values published a few months ago.
According to information from Point, Eric Zemmour should publish a press release on Tuesday in these terms: “Albin Michel unilaterally breaks his commercial relationship with Eric Zemmour in defiance of the contract that binds them. Albin Michel has just decided to throw away his commitments to Eric Zemmour. The star columnist of CNews has however for ten years been one of the most profitable leading authors of the Parisian publisher. Just at the onset of the great torpor of summer, the moment could not be better chosen to torpedo the eagerly awaited book that Eric Zemmour was to publish at the start of the school year in September. “