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Death of Jean-Claude Fasquelle: "He had an infinite capacity to understand the human soul"

2021-03-15T16:10:26.985Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - Jean-Claude Fasquelle, the historical patron of Editions Grasset, died this weekend at the age of 90. The publisher Manuel Carcassonne, who remained by his side for more than 20 years, pays tribute to this figure of French publishing.


Manuel Carcassonne is an editor and journalist.

When I joined Grasset and Fasquelle, the two names mattered equally, at 61 rue des Saints-Pères.

Fasquelle wanted it.

Bernard Grasset's portrait greeted you at the top of the stairs.

Jean-Claude spoke of his majority shareholder as if he were a partner and not the owner, editorial life had little to do with today.

I was 25 years old.

It was January 1991. I even forgot my title as a young man, then I became literary director, following Yves Berger, the American southerner born in Avignon.

I had been chosen on the double and astonishing recommendation of two antagonistic pillars of the house, Bernard-Henri Lévy on one side, François Nourissier on the other, astonished Fasquelle asked me: "

you are on the right or on the left. ?

Neither one nor the other, I replied, getting ahead of the same time today.

With a sudden nudge on the shoulder, he hired me,

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Source: lefigaro

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