Éditions Grasset is a French publishing house founded in 1907 by (1881–1955). Grasset publishes French and foreign literature, essays, novels and children's books, among others.
Bernard Grasset sold ownership of the company to Hachette in 1954. In 1967, Éditions Grasset merged with Éditions Fasquelle. Today it operates as a subsidiary of Hachette, which has been owned by Lagardère Group since 1981.
History
Under its Founder
Bernard Grasset was born in 1881 in Montpellier. He received a degree in economics before moving to Paris, where he ran in literary circles and started his own publishing business.[1] The company published a number of successful books in its early years, including Alphonse de Châteaubriant's Monsieur des Lourdines and André Savignon's Les Filles de la pluie, both of which won the Prix Goncourt.[2] In 1913, Grasset published the first volume of À la recherche du temps perdu