{{Short description|French publishing house}} {{Infobox publisher | name = Calmann-Lévy | image = Logo Calmann-Lévy 2016.png | parent = Hachette | status = | founded = 1836 | predecessor = Michel Lévy frères | founder = Michel Lévy and Kalmus "Calmann" Lévy | successor = | country = France | headquarters = Paris | distribution = | keypeople = | publications = Books | topics = | genre = | imprints = | revenue = | numemployees = | nasdaq = | url = {{URL|https://calmann-levy.fr}} }}
'''Calmann-Lévy ''' is a French publishing house founded in 1836 by Michel Lévy as Michel Lévy frères. His brother Kalmus Calmann Lévy joined in 1844. After Michel's death in 1875, the firm was renamed ''Calmann Lévy''.<ref name="Grynberg2010">{{Cite web |title=La fulgurante saga familiale des frères Levy, inventeurs de l’édition moderne |url=https://www.noemiegrynberg.com/la-fulgurante-saga-familiale-des-freres-levy-inventeurs-de-ledition-moderne/ |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=Meilleur Site Dédié À La Culture Juive |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
==History== In 1836, Michel Lévy (1821–1875) founded the publishing house of Michel Lévy frères. In 1844, his brother Kalmus "Calmann" Lévy (1819–1891) joined the publishing house.<ref name="1891Obit">{{cite news |last1=Paris Dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph |title=CALMANN-LEVY'S DEATH. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1891/07/05/archives/calmannlevys-death.html |access-date=2 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=5 July 1891}}</ref> After Michel's death in 1875, Calmann became the sole proprietor and the firm was renamed ''Calmann Lévy''.<ref name="Grynberg2010"/> Shortly before his death, he admitted his three sons into a partnership.<ref name="1891Obit"/> By 1875, the company was among the foremost publishing houses of Europe. It was the publisher of most of the important French authors of the second half of the 19th century, including Balzac, Baudelaire, René Bazin, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Dumas, Flaubert, Victor Hugo,<ref>{{Cite web |title=CALMANN LEVY, Kalmus Lévy dit — - Juliette Drouet, Lettres à Victor Hugo |url=http://www.juliettedrouet.org/lettres/spip.php?page=article&id_article=1838 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250608020755/http://www.juliettedrouet.org/lettres/spip.php?page=article&id_article=1838 |archive-date=2025-06-08 |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=www.juliettedrouet.org |language=fr |url-status=live }}</ref> Lamartine, Ernest Renan, George Sand, and Stendhal. In 1891, it published the memoirs of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord,<ref name="1891Memoirs">{{cite news |title=TALLEYRAND'S MEMOIRS.; MEMOIRS OF THE PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND. Edited with a preface and notes by the Duo de Broglie of the French Academy. Translated by Mrs. Angus Hall. Vol. IV. G.P. Putnam's Sons. New-York and London. 1891. MEMOIRES DU PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND. Publies avec une preface el des notes par le Duo de Broglie dedl'Acadmie Francaise, IV. Paris: Calmann-Levy. Editeur: 1891. New-York: Boston. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1891/12/20/archives/talleyrands-memoirs-memoirs-of-the-prince-de-talleyrand-edited-with.html |access-date=2 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=20 December 1891}}</ref> and in 1893, the memoirs of Alexis de Tocqueville.<ref name="1893Memoirs">{{cite news |title=DE TOCQUEVILLE MEMOIRS; AMERICA, LOUIS PHILIPPE, AND LOUIS NAPOLEON. SOUVENIRS DE ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE. Publies par le Comte de Tocqueville. Paris; Calmann Levy. New-York; Amblard & Meyer Brothers. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1893/04/02/archives/de-tocqueville-memoirs-america-louis-philippe-and-louis-napoleon.html |access-date=2 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=2 April 1893}}</ref> In 1893, Calmann was succeeded by his sons Georges, Paul, and Gaston, who went on to publish authors including Anatole France, Pierre Loti and Proust.<ref name="GCLObit1937">{{cite news |title=CALMANN-LEVY, 77, PUBLISHER, IS DEAD; Head of the House Which First Printed Works of Anatole France Succumbs in Paris |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/02/10/archives/calmannlevy-77-publisher-is-dead-head-of-the-house-which-first.html |access-date=2 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=10 February 1937}}</ref><ref name="illinois">{{cite web |title=Letter from Gaston Calmann-Lévy to Marcel Proust, 25 June 1918 |url=https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/letter-from-gaston-calmann-levy-to-marcel-proust-25-june-1918/ |website=www.library.illinois.edu |publisher=University of Illinois Library |access-date=2 November 2020}}</ref>
During Nazi occupation, Gaston Lévy was interned, and the publishing company, run by the Germans, was renamed '' Éditions Balzac'' in 1943. After the liberation, the company was headed by Léon Pioton. Authors edited during the postwar period included: Arthur Koestler, Elia Kazan, Anne Frank, and later Donna Leon, Nicolas Hulot, Patricia Cornwell, Guillaume Musso, among others.<ref name="Mollier2014">{{cite book |last1=Mollier |first1=Jean-Yves |title=Michel & Calmann Lévy: Ou la naissance de l'édition moderne 1836-1891 |date=2014 |publisher=Calmann-Lévy |isbn=978-2-7021-5100-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KB3EBgAAQBAJ&dq=Gaston+Calmann+L%C3%A9vy&pg=PT324 |access-date=2 November 2020 |language=fr}}</ref> <!-- redlinks: Gérard Mordillat, Andrea H. Japp, Agnès Abécassis, Édouard Brasey, Emmanuelle Friedmann, Élise Fischer, Antonin Malroux, Georges-Patrick Gleize, Hélene Legrais, Gerard Georges, Gérard Glatt-->
===Present day=== Since 1993, Calmann-Lévy has been owned by publisher Hachette (which is in turn owned by Lagardère Group).<ref name="Mollier2014"/>
==Book series== * Action, amour, aventure * Les années du... * Bibliothèque contemporaine<ref>{{Cite book |last=Noriac |first=Jules |url=http://archive.org/details/paristelquilest00nori |title=Paris tel qu'il est |date=1884 |publisher=Paris : Calmann Lévy |others=University of Ottawa}}</ref> * Bibliothèque des voyageurs * Bibliothèque dramatique * Bibliothèque littéraire * Bibliothèque théâtrale * Bibliothèque des chefs-d'ieuvre du roman contemporain * Calmann-Lévy collection * Calmann-Lévy collection nouvelle * Châteaux, décors de l'histoire * Collection bleue * Collection engagements * Collection Hetzel et Lévy * Collection le prisme * Collection les romans de la rose * Collection le zodiaque * Collection masques et visages * Collection Michel Lévy * Collection Nelson: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature * Collection Presses Pocket * Collection roman d'ailleurs * Diaspora<ref>{{Cite web |title=se:"Collection Diaspora" - Search Results |url=https://search.worldcat.org/search?qt=hotseries&q=se:%22Collection+Diaspora%22 |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=search.worldcat.org}}</ref> * Dimensions SF<ref>{{Cite web |title=nooSFere - Collection |url=https://www.noosfere.org/livres/collection.asp?numcollection=216&NumEditeur=3605 |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=www.noosfere.org}}</ref> * Edition du centenaire * E. Guillaume et Cie * Essai société * Collection France de toujours et d'aujourd'hui * L'Heure H * Interstices<ref>{{Cite web |title=nooSFere - Collection |url=https://www.noosfere.org/livres/collection.asp?numcollection=1975550455&NumEditeur=3605 |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=www.noosfere.org}}</ref> * Liberté de l'esprit<ref>{{Cite web |title=se:"Liberté de l'esprit." - Search Results |url=https://search.worldcat.org/search?qt=hotseries&q=se:%22Liberte%CC%81+de+l%27esprit.%22 |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=search.worldcat.org}}</ref> * Le Livre de poche<ref>Vercors, ''[https://archive.org/details/lesilencedelamer00verc/page/n191/mode/2up Le silence de la mer, et autres récits]'', Paris: Calmanny-Lévy, 1951 (Le Livre de poche), publisher's advertisement. Retrieved 9 November 2021.</ref> * Médailles d'or * Nouvelle collection historique * Nouvelle collection illustrée * Nouvelle collection Michel Lévy * L'Ordre des choses<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chapuis |first=Robert |url=http://archive.org/details/leschrtiensetles0000chap |title=Les chrétiens et le socialisme : témoignage et bilan |date=1976 |publisher=Paris : Calmann-Lévy |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-2-7021-0095-0}}</ref> * Perspectives économiques * Pour nos enfants * Pourpre<ref>{{Cite web |title=se:"Collection pourpre" - Search Results |url=https://search.worldcat.org/search?qt=hotseries&q=se:%22Collection+pourpre%22 |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=search.worldcat.org}}</ref> * Questions d'actualité * Le Romantisme des classiques<ref>{{Cite book |last=Deschanel |first=Émile Auguste Étienne Martin |url=http://archive.org/details/boileaucharlesp00descgoog |title=Boileau, Charles Perrault |date=1891 |publisher=Paris, Calmann Lévy |others=University of Michigan}}</ref> * Temps & continents * Traduit de<ref>{{Cite web |title=se:"Collection "Traduit de"." - Search Results |url=https://search.worldcat.org/search?qt=hotseries&q=se:%22Collection+%22Traduit+de%22.%22 |access-date=2025-08-26 |website=search.worldcat.org}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{official website|https://calmann-levy.fr/}} * ''[https://archive.org/details/bnf-bpt6k65324734/page/n1/mode/2up Une Aventure d'éditeurs au XIXe siècle: Michel et Calmann Lévy]'' (catalogue), exhibition, 25 April-24 May 1986, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris
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