Jean-Jacques Pauvert

{{Short description|French publisher}} {{Expand French|topic=bio|date=June 2010|Jean-Jacques Pauvert}} '''Jean-Jacques Pauvert''' (8 April 1926 – 27 September 2014)<ref name="death">{{cite web |url=http://www.leparisien.fr/livres/l-editeur-jean-jacques-pauvert-est-decede-27-09-2014-4169641.php |title=Mort de Jean-Jacques Pauvert, éditeur de Sade et d'"Histoire d'O" |accessdate=28 September 2014 |work=leparisien}}</ref> was a French publisher, notable for publishing the work of the Marquis de Sade in the early 1950s and as the first publisher of the ''Story of O'' (1954)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://calounet.pagesperso-orange.fr/interview/pauvert.htm|title="Les livres, c’est un monde à part. Un monde de fête. Un monde secret."|last=Garcia|first=Carole|date=June 2004|publisher=Calou|language=French|accessdate=2 July 2011}}</ref> and the first edition of Kenneth Anger's ''Hollywood Babylon'' (1959).

Pauvert was born in Paris. In addition to his other publications, he published the first French edition of Henry David Thoreau's ''Civil Disobedience'' in 1968. He died, aged 88, in Toulon.

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