Gaston Gallimard 🕵🏻‍♂️ was the founder of a publishing empire, the management of which was subsequently taken over by…

Gaston Gallimard 🕵🏻‍♂️ was the founder of a publishing empire, which was subsequently run by his son Claude and then his grandson Antoine, born in 1947.

The son of Paul Gallimard, who was an architect, a collector of Impressionist art and a friend of Renoir, Gaston was born in 1881, ten years after Proust. Like Proust, he studied at the Lycée Condorcet, obtained his Baccalaureate in 1898 and, at the age of twenty, led the life of a dandy 🤵🏻‍♂️. He became secretary to Robert de Flers, a school friend of Proust’s and a writer of vaudevilles, who would later become editor-in-chief of the newspaper @lefigaro.

A literary journal was founded in late 1908 and began appearing regularly from February 1909: @nrf.larevue 📓. A publishing house was set up in 1911 alongside the journal, and Gallimard – who co-founded it with André Gide and Jean Schlumberger – was invited to gradually take on the role of manager and then director. Jacques Rivière took over as editor-in-chief of @nrf.larevue, succeeding Jacques Copeau 🎭, who had been one of its co-founders.

In 1912, the NRF’s publishing house rejected Proust’s manuscript, “Le Temps perdu”. Proust rewrote his manuscript to create two volumes 📗📘 and, on 14 November 1913, published “Swann's Way” at his own expense with Grasset. In January 1914, Jacques Rivière wrote to Proust expressing his admiration as a reader. Rivière and Gallimard persuaded Proust to join @la_nrf in 1916, and Gide apologised 🖋️💌 for the rejection in 1912.

The correspondence between Gaston Gallimard and Marcel Proust 📔, which spans the years 1912 to 1922, was published in 1989 in an edition edited by Pascal Fouché @editions_gallimard.

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