A 12 months after its takeover by Bolloré, Fayard will publish “What I am looking for”, the primary guide by Jordan Bardella | EUROtoday

It’s troublesome to be extra concise. “Fayard, one of the major publishing houses of the Hachette Livre group, is delighted to announce the release of Jordan Bardella’s first book, What I’m looking for, Saturday, November 9 in bookstores », wrote Fayard in a press release on Tuesday October 15. The president of the National Rally (RN) will therefore publish his first work within Hachette Livre, owned by Vivendi, the group of billionaire Vincent Bolloré, since November 2023. It therefore took barely a year for this type of contract be announced, as if it were a happy announcement.

Nothing has filtered out about the content of this book, in which the publisher of the house Nicolas Diat participated, according to Weekly Bookbut it has already sparked violent controversies. On its genesis, first. Accused of having participated in the writing of the autobiography of the president of the RN, the political journalist Jean-François Achilli was first suspended as a precautionary measure on March 14 by his radio, Franceinfo, after the publication of an article of World claiming that he was helping Mr. Bardella write this book. After an internal investigation, the journalist was immediately fired by Radio France for “repeated breaches” to ethics. Mr. Achilli challenged this dismissal in court docket, claiming to have solely been approached, however by no means to have concluded a contract for the writing of this work.

The affect of the brand new shareholder is changing into increasingly vital at Hachette. Fayard’s very proper flip was confirmed with the arrival of Lise Boëll on the head of Fayard in June. When she labored at Albin Michel, till 2021, this editor made Eric Zemmour, the present president of Reconquête!, a profitable essayist, after having poached the latter from Fayard. At Albin Michel, she additionally gave highly effective media visibility to Philippe de Villiers, loyal help of Mr. Zemmour since 2021.

The final straw

It is subsequently no shock that Lise Boëll plans to publish the subsequent work by Philippe de Villiers, MemoricideOctober 30 at Fayard. She additionally added to the home’s catalog the far-right journalist Sonia Mabrouk, who launched, on September 11, What if tomorrow every little thing was reversed and who works in quite a few media of the Vivendi group, together with The Sunday Journal, Europe 1 and CNews.

For a number of years, Fayard has suffered intense earthquakes. In March 2022, Sophie de Closets, who ran the home, slammed the door, taking along with her a number of authors to Flammarion (Madrigall), after assaults on her editorial line by Nicolas Sarkozy – near Vincent Bolloré and administrator of ‘Hatchet. Isabelle Saporta, appointed to succeed him because of the help of the identical Nicolas Sarkozy, shortly got here up towards the calls for of the Vivendi group. She was fired for refusing to share energy inside Fayard with Lise Boëll, imposed with out qualms by the brand new shareholder. Even although the latter had been the topic of two damning audits on her administration when she co-directed Plon (Editis).

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