Editions the Farandole

The editions the farandole , were a publisher specialized in the literature of childhood and youth. Having the statute of public limit company, it raised of the leading group of the French Communist party, nevertheless with an autonomy which enabled him to publish extremely various authors. Created with the last quarters 1955, " the farandole" a reputation of serious in its production had acquired, from which many works were distinguished by selections the such Diploma Young Leisures. Included in 1979-1980 in the reorganizations of the leading group of the PCF, the publisher takes then the name of Messidor the farandole. The whole of the group gathered the social editions, famous current Temps, the editions Vaillant Mirror Sprint, the literary editions Messidor, in the past the brought together French editors directed by Louis Aragon, and Messidor the farandole. Become Scanéditions in 1992, the group was put in liquidation in 1994. The editions " the farandole" disappeared after 39 years from existence and left a vacuum, that no one did not fill, in the field of the literature for youth.

notes of situation

places

During their creation the editions the farandole had domiciled 3, Cour the commercial Saint Andre, a passage to the paving stones disjoined between the Saint-Germain boulevard and the Rue Saint-Andre-of-Arts, in the 6th Parisian district. The room included/understood a ground floor from which the old window was protected the evening come by removable wood shutters, and a first exiguous stage because the whole was contiguous at the restaurant " Procope" , whose frontage gave on the Rue of the Old-Comedy. The ground floor was reserved for commercial, accountancy, forwardings, the store of reserve, the files. The first stage, cut into 4/5 offices, was used for the literary production, artistic and technical and sheltered the small directorial office. Through the partitions one heard the bustle in the kitchens of the multiséculaire restaurant… Opposite a iron work in its workshop a remainder of the ramparts of Philippe-Auguste included. In the same course, certain Doctor Guillotin had designed an instrument intended to soften the sufferings of condemned to death. From 1955 to 1975, it is in this out of date decoration of Paris of the Eighteenth century, that the personnel of this small house of edition affairait itself, which employed (in 1972) just ten paid people, but whose catalog offered more than 250 titles, of which some competed easily with leading competition. The enlarging of the restaurant, and a lease at the too high price forced a first removal, 11 bis rue de la Planche, in the 7th district. It was only temporary. About 1979, the editions the farandole left left bank of the Seine to settle 146 rue du Faubourg - poissonnière, in a building which gathered all the components of the editions Messidor.

the company

The beginning of the year 1970, the direction, entirely female, was ensured by a duet: a director " stratégique" , Paulette Mr., of which he thought that she was the partner of Jean Jerome, occult eminence of the PCF, and a literary and commercial, professional director of the edition, Régine Lilenstein They were assisted by two " techniciennes" edition, in addition various authors with title: Madeleine Gilard, in charge particularly of the reading with the manuscripts, translator of tales and itself author of several books for children, and Jacqueline Mathieu, model maker of talent, which took part in the design of the majority of the great new productions of the publisher, such the Treasury of the Man , the Man of all the colors , signed by Pierre Paraf, the Resistance written by Pierre Durand or My ancestors the redskins , of William Camus. Later, it also launched out in the illustration of tales for children, published by the house.

diffusion

Public limit company, its capital was 350.000 francs in the years 1960, before being carried with 500.000 francs in 1973. That translated the dynamism of this structure, of which a network of principals, teachers, persons in charge municipal with childhood and work's councils ensured a voluntary promotion, related to the " progressisme" leading production. In fact, the distribution of the editions the farandole was ensured by the CDLP Center of diffusion of the book and the press, like the other editions of the PCF. The advantages of this diffusion of the type at the same time militant and commercial however were negatively counterbalanced by a certain ostracism whose often made proof childish literary criticism with regard to this editor classified " on the left ". Especially, the diffusion by CDLP limited the space of diffusion and hardly the access of the editions the farandole opened to the networks of the traditional booksellers. Fault of being better known and more largely put at range of its potential public, the leading production could not play equal footings with the publications intended for youth exits of the large editors.

leading principles

to make known the Soviet and socialist literature for childhood

During their creation, the editions the farandole had as a speciality the translation and the diffusion of the abundant literature for the childhood and the youth of the Soviet Union. The volume which carries number 1 of the editor is a translation made by Natha Caputo of Contes written by Maxime Gorki. Volume number 2 is addressed to the same age bracket, 7 to 10 years, but in spite of its title, the pink of Karpathes , its author is a French writer Pierre Gamarra, which was in addition critical arts person of the weekly magazine of CGT, the working Life , before he becomes director of the review Europe . Gamarra, also novelist for adults was one of the most faithful authors of the farandole during its existence, since it published ten titles there. Its first book whose copyright is of 1955 makes it possible to encircle one of the characteristics of the editions the Farandole: the recourse to good illustrators to accompany the texts. There it is about Mireille Miailhe, which it also starts a profitable collaboration with the publisher. As for the lines which conclude this Rose from Karpathes , delivers unceasingly republished, it summarizes the orientation of the editions the farandole: " I will say to you now which was this rose tree with the so powerful arms. It was the rose tree of Freedom, do not forget it. Its seed pushes in the middle of the men and the women, the girls and the boys. When it grows, its arms are stronger than the walls of the prisons and the castles, more extremely than the winds of the storm and the désert" . The diffusion of the literature of the European East, of which the rights for Russian were managed by a company of communist mobility, the literary and artistic Agency Parisian (ALAP), was not limited to the USSR.

co-operation with the East-German, Polish and Czech editions

Certain collections result from the co-operation between the editions the farandole and the editors of State of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and especially of German Democratic republic. Agreements of translation, diffusion and impression between it and the " Kinderbuchverlag" make it possible the catalog editions the farandole to propose a broad choice of very modern (in the sense that the history is in the everyday life of the children of the 20th century) literature for the youth of GDR. The same step was made with the Polish childish editions. With this difference however: the author is French, Isabelle Jan, Marie-Zéline Sadoul, Andrée Clair, Madeleine Dubois, Madeleine Gilard, the draftsmen are Polish. With the Artia editions of Prague, it is about literature scientists of popularization of which one of works knows several republications: the Encyclopedia of prehistory of Zdenek V. Spinar, illustrated by Zdenek Burian.

French production

Minority the first years, the French authors and illustrators quickly enlarged the catalog of the editions the farandole. They are French authors for adults who write tales for children. Thus volume n° 21 published in 1956 is a resumption of tales written by Paul Valiant-Dressmaker before war: poor History of ass and fatty pig. In 1967, Bernard Clavel is delivered to the same exercise, with the Tree which sings . Armand Lanoux delivers a Dagobert and rusted anchors. As from the years 1960, the French authors occupy the first place thanks to the emergence of authors specialized in the literature of youth: in addition to those already quoted, one meets the names of Luda, Rene Antona, Georges Nigremont, Colette Vivier, Jean Olivier, in addition authors of Cartoons, André Verdet, Madeleine Bellet, Juliette Darle, Maurice Jean, Jean Garonnaire, Bernadette Després, Pierre Menanteau, Jacques Cassabois, etc

a literature " engagée" ?

The production went from the album of ten robust hard-bound pages for the " more than 2 ans" with the novels of adventures for the " more than 14 ans". For the oldest some authors have known stature: Howard Fast, Ludwig Renn, Gianni Rodari, Valentine Kataiev, Leon Tolstoï or Charles Darwin… the editions the farandole also resort to the great classics of the literature: the Island with the treasures of Robert Louis Stevenson, Tom Sawyer , Fine Huckleberry , of Mark Twain, Don Quichotte of Cervantès. the Oak speaking and the Masters mosaïstes about Georges Sand côtoient the adventures of the Roman Fox or those of Robin of Wood. Gargantua and Pantagruel of Rabelais, Don Quichotte of Cervantès, the cricket of the hearth of Charles Dickens are also with the catalog. The pallet was broad and the contemporary authors tended with the passing of years to being increasingly more numerous, exceeding communist mobility by far. It was a literature laic, humanistic, preaching the values of solidarity, as well on the level of the books of tales, very many and very international, as on the level of the stories for largest. the farandole was located in the filiation of Jean Macé, principal, author of tales for children and founder of the Ligue of teaching: in 1957 didn't, republish a book of this pedagog, Four tales of the Small Castle ? It was also on the occasion a literature of engagement in the contemporary world. During the war of Algeria, for example, the farandole publishes E 1959 for submission to small French a book of tales of Algeria, Baba Fekrane , of Mohammed Dib. The illustrator in is once again, Mireille Miailhe. International reporter to Humanity Madeleine Riffaud trancrit in 1958, in the so extraordinary cat of the tales of the Vietnam. In 1971, whereas the war makes rage, is published the Treasury of the Man , tales and images of Vietnam. Model by Jacqueline Mathieu, with photographs of Roger Peak, Marc Riboud, Jean Bertolino, documents provided by Georges Boudarel and Charles Fourniau this book is selected by various jurys children's book: there took to seat some worms of the poet-leader Ho Chi Minh. In catch on the history, written for the " more than 10 ans" , the novels of Pierre Gamarra, Bertrand Solet often refer to Resistance. Madeleine Gilard, in Ali and its buddy promotes, for an age bracket younger, the fraternity of the children of any origine. In the years 1980 one of the collections of the publisher aims at providing to the young readers data elements on the topicality. Thus the journalist Francoise Germain-Robin writes a book on Algeria, bound for the young French-speaking people of two banks of the Mediterranean.

beautiful books

An great attention was put at the illustration, with the page layout. In this respect the volumes of poetry published between 1975 and 1985, " It was once… " are successes of the kind. Certain illustrators work with several volumes of the editions the farandole, like Rene Moreu, others with only one, but they constitute a troop where one finds talents varied: thus in 1955, for volume N° 6 of the editions, a Russian tale of Iouri Olecha, the three malicious large , one finds as illustrator, Jacques Faizant. Among others, it is necessary to quote Jacques Kamb, Jacques Naret, Paul Tillard, Béatrice Tanaka, Jacqueline Held, Jacqueline Mathieu,…

Catalogued beautiful books by the same editions, some among those could interest an assistantship having exceeded the course of youth.

Resistance , Pierre Durand, leaves at the time of the 30e birthday the Release. In addition to the text and a sought iconography, it is accompanied in its original edition by 1974, by a small flexible long-playing record, where one intends Paul Éluard to read his famous poem " Liberté" . This book is then republished with the format " poche".
the man of all the colors, racism… why? of Pierre Paraf, prefaced by the director of UNESCO Rene Maheu, with the same format of 22 X 29,5 is of the same pagination of 230 pages, is crowned in 1973 of the " price Jean Macé" allotted by the " League of Enseignement".
My ancestors the Redskins , delivered by William Camus, is at the same time history of the Indians of the United States of America and testimony of a descendant of an Indian tribe.

The books of more current collections, are also equipped with a rich person iconography. Of Rolande Causse and Madeleine Gilard, Marco Polo, the book of the wonders and Tales and images of formerly are illustrated of reproduction of engravings of time. After a first test, Delacroix , presented by Olga Wormser in 1963, in collaboration with the editions Circle of Art, the jewel of the editions being undoubtedly a book, appeared in 1969, where Pablo Picasso mingles its drawings with those with the children with Vallauris, accompanied by a text of Jean Marcenac: Picasso, children and toros of Vallauris .

some other productions

books accompanied by discs

The editions the farandole tried one moment, in connection with the music publishings the Song of the world, to twin disc-microgrooves and delivers tales. Thus known actors recited the children, the tales of India, the tales of Persia or the tales of Black Africa which they could read in the albums. It does not seem that the experiment was a success. On the contrary, associating music and account, one of the leading products of the two editors were the famous Pierre and the wolf , of Serge Prokofiev, accompanied by the text called by the actor Gerard Philippe.

books of scientific popularization

In 1957-1958, the editions the farandole tried also a diversification, without following days, by publishing books for young adults. Little known and little sold, they remained with the catalog until the years 1974-1975. In this collection entitled " To know and connaître" , five books were published in the pocket format. Thus was published the book of the doctor Fernand Lamaze, introducer in France of this method of setting in the world: Is What what the painless childbirth? . Also a book of the scientific chronicler Lucien Barnier appeared: the unknown ground-planet, the geophysical year. But bound for a young public the collection will perdura, calling upon specialists in their discipline. The physicist Michel Rouzé delivers Copernic and the conquest of cosmos , the film critic Georges Sadoul written On other side of the cameras , the musicologist Michel R. Hofmann tells the history of the music in Musique, my friend , etc In another collection appears the printing works of Gutenberg with the electron , written by the journalist Robert Lechène.

the data bases CONK the farandole

After the reorganizations of the leading group Messidor, the farandole joins the editions Vaillant Mirror Sprint to publish some of successes of the weekly magazine Pif gadget:

stories of Dicentim , the small one frankly, of Jacques Kamb
some of the adventures of Rahan , Roger Lecureux and Andre Chéret
Apache Captain: blood for blood , of Roger Lecureux
some episodes of Doctor Justice , Jean Olivier and Carlo Marcello: the secrecy of the large marshes , destination Borneo , white death , Amandla .
Pifou , of Roger Farmhouse.
in 1989/1990, three volumes of Christmas and Marie , scenario of Jean Olivier and François Corteggiani, drawings of Jean-Yves Mitton, accompany the celebration by the Bicentenary of the French revolution, of the storming of the Bastille to Valmy.
same the Jean Olivier, associated with Christian Gaty, delivers also Rossignol, a citizen of the Revolution . Didactic, the last pages present the great phases of the history of the Revolution and draw up the portrait of four protagonists of the events: Robespierre, Danton, Holy Just and… Babeuf.

with mid- course of its existence: 1974, the catalog of the Farandole

The catalog " spring 1974" allows to make a " state of the lieux". He announces: " 150 pounds, 13 collections, for the children and the young people, of the whole small to the more grands". Each collection is designed to correspond to the reading level and waitings of an age bracket.

3 - 5 years : key gold collection. They are hardbacks, of 12 robust pages, with the simple drawings accompanied by some simple words and sentences. Their manufacture and their impression in GDR, make it possible to fix a selling price rather relatively low: 5,50 frs

3 - 6 years : collection thousand colors): it accompanies the training by the reading with simple stories. The books are produce in Poland. Colette Vivier obtains in 1972 a mention of the International prize H.C. Andersen for 3 of the books of this collection. Made of a paperboard less thick than the precedents, they make more books. Among the authors: Madeleine Bellet, former teacher, a long time direct of the Valiant newspaper .

5 - 8 years : collection thousand images. Created since 1956, this series began again, by translating them and by illustrating them, of the tales for children of multiple countries. But in 1974, it evolved/moved and proposes stories written by contemporary authors. The books are printed in France. The visited countries corresponded to the chart of the states known as " socialistes" like with the various republics of the U.S.S.R.: Albania, Bulgaria, popular China, Korea, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Mongolia, Russia, Tadjikistan, Ukraine, Vietnam, Yugoslavia. 2 Russian authors supplemented this contribution: Samuel Marchak and Alexis Tolstoï. The French authors took over: Monique Bermont, Andree Clair, diploma leisures young person in 1968 for his " Nicole in XVe stages " , Bernadette Després, Pierre Gamarra, Madeleine Gilard, Bertrand Solet

5 -9 years : collection will-o'-the-wisp. It is the most poetic collection. It includes/understands books of illustrated poems of Michel Butor " Small the miroirs" , of Robert Desnos, " The brochet" , of the tales of Claude Aveline, " of what still? " , of Henri Pourrat, " CABRI carabi" , of Andre Verdet, " The bird and the barrage" , of the fantastic stories of Jean Garonnaire, " The tower leaves in voyage". Impossible to circumvent the Pierre Gamarra delivers a " ABC". Between 1974 and 1988, 6 books of collections of poetries, extremely well illustrated are published there, whose whole forms a kind of anthology bound for youth:

It was once poetry… , (1974), of Georges Jean, images of Sylvie Selig.
It was once, the animals , (1978), of Jean-Hugues Malineau, images of Sylvie Selig.
It was once, the children , (1978) of Jacques Charpentreau, images of Danielle Avezard.
It was once, the words , (1981), of Yves Pinguilly, typoscénie of André Belleguie.
It was once, tomorrow , (1983), of Jacqueline Held and Claude Held, images of Francoise Boudignon]].
It was once, the colors of the world… , of Jacqueline Held, images of Christine Thouzeau.

6 - 9 years : collection die, of it). Printed in GDR, with Plauen. The main part of the books of this series has as authors of German of the East where the books are printed. After having counted a dozen titles, the collection, in 1974 counts nothing any more but 3 titles, of which adventures of Bibi, an astute little girl who has a small eccentric blue pig… The German authors are Ingeborg Feustel for the text and Eberhard Binder for the illustration. Among the other authors and illustrators of the former works: Ingeborg Meyer-Rey, Carlos Rasch, Fred Rodrian, Hansgeorg Stengel. Russian Sergei Mikhalkov, only not Germanist of the collection obtains a Diplôme leisures young person in 1967, for " the small kid heading ".

7 - 10 years : collection of the illustrated albums. It is in this crenel that the first two publications of the editions the farandole/the tales of Maxime Gorki and Pierre Gamarra are. Many authors follow. Among French: Bernard Clavel, whose the tree which sings obtains a Diplôme Leisures young person in 1967, Andrée Clair, and mysteries of Alkassoum , Juliette Darle, with Léonard and the flying machine , Maurice Jean for treasures of Farfounet , Pierre Menanteau, and the voyageuses ones without ticket , Georges Nigremont, and the small fawn , Andrée Vilar, for Vincent and his boat .

as from 8 years : collection great official reception. It is very eclectic, and gathers the novel of the Utopia, the Gulliver's Travels of Jonathan Swift, diploma " Better livre" in 1967, tales inhabitants of Tajik, " the parakeets which speak " , and of the novels of adventures: Pierre Gamarra with " the mystery of Berlurette " and Colette Vivier, for " the small theater ".

9 - 12 years : collection Feastday. With the format 22,5 X 27,5, it is one of the collections headlights of the publisher. Modern, the illustrations, the majority of Rene Moreu, the photographs, cuttings, are imbricated in the text. It is here that figure the treasure of the man , tales and images of Vietnam, diploma leisures young people 1971, selection " 50 books of the year; 1971. Among the other titles:

magic savanna , of Andre Clair and Boubou Hama, selection " better year delivers; 1972, diploma leisures young people 1972.
the tangerine and Mandarin of Pierre Gamarra, " selection 50 books of the year; 1970.
Adventures of the four seas , Jean Olivier, diploma leisures young person 1964.
Colorin coloured , (tales of Spain) translated by Madeleine Gilard, diploma leisures young person 1963.
the girl of the large snake , tales of the Brazil, formatted by Beatrice Tanaka

as from 10 years : collection thousand episodes. One enters starting from this collection the romantic universe. Volumes correspond to those of the green Bibliothèque of in the editor Hachette. The majority of the authors are quoted previously. Volumes of 14 X 18, including/understanding between 180 and 200 pages, of which ten are reserved for the illustration on full page. In 1972, the collection is renovated by changing presentation: 12 X 19 of format, abandonment of the paper jacquette for the illustrated hard-bound cover. In Pierre Gamarra, ( the captain Spring ; adventures of the plumed serpent ), Madeleine Gilard, ( Anne and the mini club ), Georges Nigremont, ( the torn city ; a victory with the Olympic Games ), are added Bertrand Solet, ( Bastien, Paris urchin ; dark days ], Anna Maria Matute, ( the stowaway ), Jean Cernaut, ( closed Area ). In its new presentation the collection republishes certain old titles but forsakes the Russian authors, Iouri Olecha, Vera Tchaplina, whose My friends with four legs had been translated in 1956 by Marie Lahy-Hollebecque, NR. Dilaktorskaïa. Some of these authors however had moved a generation by young readers, such I. Vassilienko, telling in a young actor the adventures of a young shoe-maker, poor and self-educated, who, in Russia tsarist arrives through persévérence, of intelligence and honesty to achieve his dream: to become actor. They were better than the lapse of memory.

as from 12 years : collection is a prelude to. It is intended to the teenagers. This collection is also renewed it about 1974. It gives up the exploitation of its funds which included/understood inter alia Howard Fast, ( Haym Solomon ), Valentine Kataiev ( With far a sail ), Léopold Infeld, ( Welsh Évariste ), Charles Darwin, ( Voyage of a naturalist around the world ), Liselotte Dungel-Gilles, ( Knud Rasmussen at the eskimos ), Ludwig Renn, ( Trini ). But it accommodates more modern novels: of the Greek novelist Alki Zei, the Tiger in the window , of Russian Rouvim Fraerman, Tania or the first love , or of American Véra and Bill Cleaver, Mary of the high valley . Also appear in this collection Huckleburry Finn of Mark Twain.

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