Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2020
Le Consentement and the Matzneff controversy
Grasset published Vanessa Springora's memoir about sexual abuse by writer Gabriel Matzneff when she was a teenager. The book intensified scrutiny of Matzneff's writings and of the French literary and publishing institutions that had previously given him visibility, while prompting broader debate about abuse and the treatment of minors.
1948
Bernard Grasset's collaboration conviction
Bernard Grasset was convicted of collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War. He received a fine and a sentence of national degradation for life, creating a lasting controversy in the founder's biography and the company's history.