L'Esprit frappeur ( French for "

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" or " poltergeist"), is a French

publishing house Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

, specialized in low-cost books. Before the change to euros, it used to sell its books for 10 or 20

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; they now cost between 2,5 euros and 5 euros. ''L'Esprit frappeur'' edits many texts more or less censored for economic or political reasons by larger companies.

A few books published by L'Esprit frappeur

* Daniel Defoe, '' Libertalia, une utopie pirate'' (French extract of "Histoire générale des plus fameux pirates"), *Jean-Luc Einaudi and Maurice Rajsfus, ''Les Silences de la police - 16 juillet 1942, 17 octobre 1961'', 2001, (about the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv Roundup and the 1961 Paris massacre) *

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, ''Contes Maya'', 2001 *Jacques Morel, ''Calendrier des crimes de la France outre-mer'', 2001 *

Benjamin Sehene Benjamin Sehene (born 1959) is a Rwandan author whose work primarily focuses on questions of identity and the events surrounding the Rwandan genocide. He spent much of his life in Canada and lives in France. Early life and education Benjamin Seh ...

, ''Fire under the Cassock'', 2005, (about the 1994

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)

External links

* Book publishing companies of France {{publish-corp-stub