Fernand Sorlot

{{Short description|French editor and publisher}} {{Expand French|Fernand Sorlot|date=January 2021}} '''Fernand Sorlot''' (2 March 1904, Bédoin, Vaucluse – 10 August 1981, Le Vaumain, Oise)<ref>{{cite web |title=Death record for [Name] |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/od5CVv1iXd6k |website=matchID |access-date=2025-10-28 |language=French}}</ref> was a French editor and publisher. In 1934, his publishing company, the Nouvelles Éditions latines, published a French translation of ''Mein Kampf'' by Adolf Hitler.<ref name="lemondepouruneedition">{{cite news|last1=Cohen|first1=Philippe|last2=Dreyfus|first2=Jean-Marc|last3=Frison-Roche|first3=Marie-Anne|last4=de la Garanderie|first4=Dominique|last5=Orban|first5=Olivier|last6=Palacio|first6=Ana|title=Pour une édition critique de "Mein Kampf"|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2011/10/06/pour-une-edition-critique-de-mein-kampf_1582887_3260.html|accessdate=June 9, 2016|work=Le Monde|date=October 6, 2011}}</ref> Sorlot did not own the copyright, and he was sued by the Franz Eher Nachfolger, mainly because Hitler did not want the French to read the book.<ref name="lemondepouruneedition"/> Meanwhile, from 1935 to 1940, Sorlot was the co-editor of ''Le Front latin'', a fascist journal.<ref name="lesvoyagespoupault">{{cite journal|last1=Poupault|first1=Christophe|title=Les voyages d’hommes de lettres en Italie fasciste|journal=Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire|date=2009|volume=4|issue=104|pages=67–79|doi=10.3917/ving.104.0067|doi-access=free}}</ref> After World War II, Sorlot was convicted of Indignité nationale for ten years.<ref name="lemondepouruneedition"/>

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