The Fayard publishing home, underneath the management of Vincent Bolloré, as soon as once more within the storm | EUROtoday

Jordan Bardella would discover ” Magnificent “ to publish his e-book underneath the distinguished Fayard model. In the summer season of 2022, the president of the National Rally (RN) expressed his want to an government from the publishing home which had just lately handed into the fingers of Isabelle Saporta.

A 12 months later, second try: the MEP goals of a bestseller corresponding to these of Nicolas Sarkozy, accompanied by a refined photograph e-book. At the identical time, Jordan Bardella conveniently locations The Time of Fighting (2023), the final e-book of the previous president, prominently on his desk to shoot his back-to-school video. A wink seen by somebody who goals of a future and a legend. Isabelle Saporta doesn’t observe up on the approaches of the main candidate RN within the European elections in June.

But for the reason that takeover of the Lagardère group by Vivendi within the fall of 2023, the Fayard home, flagship of the Hachette group, has entered the fold of Vincent Bolloré. The Christmas holidays are barely over when phrase spreads all through Paris that Lise Boëll, 57, the editor who made Eric Zemmour a profitable essayist at Albin Michel, might arrive on the summit of Fayard, after having officiated on the head of Plon (Editis), till then managed by the Breton businessman. With Bardella's manuscript in his baggage, revealed The Obs.

In mid-January, it was at 77, rue de Miromesnil, within the Parisian places of work of Nicolas Sarkozy, that Lise Boëll – she didn’t want to reply the questions of World – confirms to the previous head of state, additionally director of the Lagardère group, his plan to publish Bardella. Not to the purpose of shaking up every part, assures Arnaud Lagardère, who denies these round him, “on the head of [ses] children “, the arrival of the editor on the head of Fayard. But on January 24, Isabelle Saporta acquired a name from the identical Lagardère. And understands, by listening to him, to what extent Bolloré lends a sympathetic ear to Bardella, a younger hope of the far proper pampered on the units of his channels CNews or C8. “Lise Boëll would like to publish Bardella. And Zemmour, Villiers, Bardella are committed to the Fayard brand”explains Arnaud Lagardère to Isabelle Saporta.

The wind is rising once more on the Fayard home, the place we thought we had safeguarded pluralism, from lawyer Gilles-William Goldnadel, columnist on CNews, to feminist and anti-racist activist Rokhaya Diallo. And distant the crowning of an excessive proper wishing to normalize itself within the footsteps of the thinkers and celebrities of the home – François Furet, Michel Serre, Robert Badinter, Barack Obama…

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