Claude Gallimard (10 January 1914 – 29 April 1991) was a French publisher and business leader. The son of

Gaston Gallimard Gaston Gallimard (; 18 January 1881 – 25 December 1975) was a French publisher. He founded ''La Nouvelle Revue Française'' in 1908, together with André Gide and Jean Schlumberger (writer), Jean Schlumberger. In 1911 the trio established La N ...

, he was, from 1976 to 1988, the head of the

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Gallimard, founded by his father in 1911.

Biography

Claude Gallimard worked in the family business of which he would become the president at the death of his father on 15 January 1976. Married to Simone Cornu, he had with her four children who all worked in the book trades:

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, and

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. In 1988, ill, Claude Gallimard handed the management of the group to his son Antoine, after removing his eldest son, Christian.

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Chronologie: Claude Gallimard biographie

- (15 February 1970)
Claude Gallimard
on INA.fr (19 November 1979)

on

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(12 December 1972)
Obituary
on the New York Times (2 May 1991) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallimard, Claude French publishers (people) French chief executives 1914 births 1991 deaths

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