Isabelle Saporta might be fired from the administration of Fayard | EUROtoday

Isabelle Saporta, the boss of Éditions Fayard, realized on Friday March 8 within the afternoon of her upcoming dismissal, following a gathering with the administration of Hachette-Livre, her father or mother firm, realized The world. She obtained an invite to an interview previous to dismissal.

A subsidiary of Lagardère, of which billionaire Vincent Bolloré's Vivendi group took management in November, Hachette-Livre needs the Fayard model to be shared with Mazarine editions. M^me Saporta refused to signal a twin Fayard and Fayard/Mazarine license in order that Lise Boell, the brand new boss of Mazarine, might publish works beneath the license with out referring it to her.

Mazarine is a publishing home created in 1979 by Éditions Fayard, which itself has belonged to Hachette since 1958. It primarily publishes novels, French and overseas, and some essays. The present director of Fayard believes that the political line of authors that Mazarine intends to usher in, by its new chief, marked on the proper, will hurt its picture. According to'Obsone among these upcoming authors is none apart from the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella.

Position of staff in favor of Isabelle Saporta

Lise Boëll, 57, who has labored in publishing since 1997, has cast the picture of a really right-wing creator writer within the business, first at Albin Michel, till 2021, then at Plon, till the top of 2023. She is behind the transformation of Eric Zemmour, journalist at Figaro, as a profitable essayist (“French Suicide” in 2014, “French destiny” in 2018, amongst others), earlier than the latter launched into politics, creating his celebration Reconquest! – labeled on the far proper – and is a candidate within the 2022 presidential election. And she can be the official editor of one other ex-candidate for the Elysée, Philippe de Villiers, who has a loyal readership.

In the continuing battle, Fayard staff took up the reason for their administration, in a letter addressed Thursday to the CEO of Hachette Livre, Arnaud Lagardère, and to Stéphanie Ferran.

“The uncertainties about the future of the Fayard and Mazarine brands and that of our CEO are already having very concrete effects on our daily lives in the company and on our relationships with our external partners, in particular the authors”they wrote on this letter of which Agence France-Presse obtained a replica.

They demand “the complete separation of the Fayard and Mazarine brands”. The mixture of the 2 doorways “damage to the identity of Fayard and blurs its perception by our customers [libraires et lecteurs] and our authors », they estimate. The letter to Mr. Lagardère and M.^me Ferran was “signed by the majority” of the corporate's 42 staff, in line with one other inner supply.

Isabelle Saporta has been an creator at Fayard since 2011, then exterior editor and literary director earlier than taking up as director in July 2022.