Simone Gallimard (née Cornu; 5 December 1917 – 22 October 1995 ) was a French editor, leader of the

Mercure de France The () was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group. The gazette was publis ...

."L'éditrice Simone Gallimard disparaît"
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Libération (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968 in France, May 1968. Initially positioned on the far left of Fr ...

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Career

Gallimard was the daughter of , a politician and a senior French official who was a senator, deputy before the war and secretary of state for fine arts in different governments, between 1951 and 1954. In 1939, she married Claude Gallimard, 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 ...

, founder and boss of the publishing house Gallimard. The four children of this marriage were Francoise,

Christian A Christian () is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism, monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus Christ. Christians form the largest religious community in the wo ...

Antoine Antoine is a French language, French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton (name), Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin. The name is most common in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada ...

and Isabelle, all working in the book trade. After the purchase in 1957 by his father-in-law Gaston Gallimard of

, a publishing house founded in 1894 by Alfred Vallette, Simone Gallimard became its director in 1962 and CEO in 1969. She was surrounded by renown literary directors such as Renaud Matignon, Michel Cournot, Paul Pavlowitch, Nicolas Bréhal. Authors of this publishing house received enviable literary prizes:

prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but resul ...

for Andreï Makine, prix Renaudot for Salvat Etchart,

prix Médicis The Prix Médicis () is a French literary award given each year in November. It was founded in 1958 by and .

for Michel Butel and François-Olivier Rousseau,

prix Femina The Prix Femina is a French List of literary awards, literary prize awarded each year by an exclusively female jury. The prize, which was established in 1904, is awarded to French-language works written in prose or Verse (poetry), verse by male ...

for Claude Faraggi, Jocelyne François and

Paula Jacques Paula Jacques (born Paula Abadi on 8 May 1949) is a French novelist, journalist, and host of the programme ''Cosmopolitaine'' on the French public station '' France Inter''. Jacques was born in Cairo, Egypt. She and her family were expelled from ...

. She was at the heart of the " Émile Ajar affair": Ajar was awarded the prix Goncourt, when he was in fact the pseudonym of Romain Gary, who still remains the only recipient of two Goncourt awards. She died on 23 October 1995 as a result of cancer. Her daughter, Isabelle, succeeded her as the head of the Mercury of France in 1995.

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SimoneGallimard
on INA.fr (25 September 1989)

on '' Les Echos'' (24 October 1995)
''Décès de Simone Gallimard''
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L'Humanité (; ) is a French daily newspaper. It was previously an organisation of the SFIO, ''de facto'', and thereafter of the French Communist Party (PCF), and maintains links to the party. Its slogan is "In an ideal world, would not exist." History ...

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Simone Gallimard, 77, Leader Of French Publishing House
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