Jean-Jacques Pauvert

Jean-Jacques Pauvert , born in April 8th 1926 is a editor French.

Biography

He passes his childhood to Sceaux and makes his studies with the Lycée Lakanal where a professor of French, Jose Lupin, consolidates in him the taste of the literature.

Short continuation of the studies to the Alsatian School where his/her paternal grandfather had been professor.

Beginning 1942, it works with the bookstore Gallimard, Boulevard Raspail with Paris: little by little it will meet number of famous editors and bibliophiles.

It starts to publish in 1945 under the name Éditions Palimugre (Sartre, Montherlant, Léautaud, Flaubert).

1947 (at the end of December): integral edition of the History of Juliette of D. - has. - F. of Sade. Pauvert publishes the first two volumes of this work under its name. The last of 10 volumes will be published in July 1949, with a signed cover paperboard Mario Prassinos.
1948 (spring): publish clandestinely a hundred and Twenty Days of Sodome in 4 volumes.
1949 Adoption of the law on the publications intended for youth.
1949 (?) Pauvert founds the first Bookstore of Palimugre street of Vaugirard.
1952 : Pauvert decides with the publication of complete works of Sade.

Publish officially Philosophy in the boudoir , prepares the publication of the news Justine and, again, that of the A hundred and Twenty Days of Sodome .

The editor is supervised by the police force. The lawsuit brought by the Public ministry against the publication of certain works of Sade will begin on December 15th 1956. The Sade business, in laquel Pauvert is defended by Maître Maurice Garçon, will be completed on March 12th 1958: the magistrates will place the works accused in the publications prohibited at youth.

1953 - 1954: Jean Paulhan makes confidence with Pauvert of the existence of Histoire of O of which it has the manuscript.
1954 : Publication of History of O under the pseudonym of Pauline Réage. Preface Jean Paulhan. This work is feather of Dominique Aury, collaborator of Jean Paulhan at Gallimard/NRF.
1956 : New “Bookstore of Palimugre” street Bonaparte.

Jean-Jacques Pauvert will publish Georges Bataille, André Breton, Erckmann-Chatrian, complete Works of Victor Hugo in 4 volumes, History of the art of Élie Faure, Pierre Klossowski, Raymond Roussel, Charles Cros, Albertine Sarrazin, the Countess of Ségur, Oscar Panizza, Fulcanelli, Eugene Canseliet, Dali, C.R. Maturin, Rene de Solier, a pamplet of Honore de Balzac, prefaced by Gerard de Nerval (Monograph of the Parisian press, 1965) One owes him the republication of the large dictionary of the French language, the Littré. And also a biography of the " Pétomane Pujol, artist phenomenon who gave spectacles of strong farts snuffed at the beginning of the century written by Jean Nohain (1967)

It will found the collections: International library of erotology; Freedoms.

It will begin again on its account in 1955 the review Bizarre creates by Eric Losfeld.

Pauvert brought to the French edition an unquestionable revival by the republication of works forgotten, proscribed or considered as marginal. Moreover it renewed the aspect of the book by calling upon model makers of talent who innovated.

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