The sling of the Calmann-Lévy heiress

For Eliane Calmann-Lévy. Similarly, 82, and her cousins, Nicholas and Alexandre Oulman, the political evolution of the Hachette group since her takeover by Vivendi, via Lagardère, in November 2023, poses a problem.

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She denounces in the columns of Mondewithout pretenses: ” The now nationalist right-wing coloring. However, the prorussian tropism, with in particular the presence in the Sunday newspaper (JDD) of Xenia Fedorova, propagandist of Putin, put very uncomfortable the majority of the 66,000 employees of Vivendi-Lagardère and Louis Hachette Group, many authors, without counting business and shareholders. Moreover, Xenia Fedorova, as a reminder, is the ex-director of RT Franceauthor at Fayard and columnist on Cnews. Furthermore,

More generally. In addition, ” The interference of policy in the economy is ultimately constitutive of loss of value “Says the Calmann-Lévy heiress.

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And to add, about the commercial argument put forward to justify the presence of certain titles within Fayard: “ The cumulation of book sales by Jordan Bardella, Nicolas Sarkozy, Philippe de Villiers and Xenia Fedorova, at Fayard, is equivalent to the sale of a single book by Guillaume Musso (NDR: published by Calmann-Lévy). For example, And to recall that most of the three billion euros in turnover in Vivendi’s book branch comes from the. general public literature. A way of speaking.

For the past few months. Fayard has noticed by a series of publications reflecting a marked ideological turn: in addition to the cities previously, we find there the ultra-conservative Cardinal Robert Sarah, Éric Ciotti or even Alain de Benoist. The publishing house continues this orientation with the launch of a new collection, “Free thought », Directed by journalist Sonia Mabrouk.

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After having invested the antennas of CNews. The pages of Sunday newspaper and the studios of Europe 1, Sonia Mabrouk now extends her influence to the editorial sphere of what is commonly designated as “ bollosphère »: A set of media controlled by Vincent Bolloré, active promoter of a rapprochement of extreme lines.

« I am proud of all our authors »

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Arnaud Lagardère. CEO of Lagardère and Hachette delivers, for response, argued that we cannot defend freedom of expression while rejecting certain voices: a way of recalling that, according to him, Hachette remains faithful to his tradition of intellectual openness. And to be formal: ” I am proud of all our authors whatever their thoughts. I personally want to express my support for them. Fayard. Europe 1 and the JDD are an integral part of the Lagardère group, they must remain there: their audience success shows, moreover, that sling calmann-lévy heiress they have a role to play in French society. »

Solicited by Actualitté. the Calmann-Lévy editions have not, for the time being, wished to react to the words of the eponymous heiress.

Today a minority shareholder. with 16 % of the capital of the publishing house integrated in Hachette delivers since 1993, this outing of the Calmann-Lévy family resonates as a powerful recall of the history and the founding values of an emblematic house of the French publishing. Founded in 1836, she published major figures like Flaubert, Stendhal, Hugo or Dumas. Jean-Yves Mollier told part of this story inCalmann-Lévy from the Belle Époque in the Second World War, Posted in 2023.

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In parallel. the European Commission suspects Vivendi of having taken control of Lagardère before authorization, prohibited practice called “gun jumping ». Brussels evokes interference inParis Match, sling calmann-lévy heiress the JDDetEurope 1.Vivendi disputes these accusations. In the event of a conviction, the group could receive a fine of up to 10 % of its global turnover.

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By Hocine Bouhadjera
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