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Gallimard: a century of publications

To celebrate the centenary of the creation of Gallimard publishing house (Editions Gallimard), the BnF invites visitors to go back over one century of intellectual history, disclosing the path of one of the most famous and secret French publishing houses. Gide, Claudel, Aragon, Breton, Malraux, Joyce, Faulkner, Saint-Exupéry, Michaux, Sartre, Queneau, Ionesco, Genêt, Pinter, Camus, Yourcenar, Duras, Kerouac, Modiano, Le Clézio, Kundera, Tournier...

The exhibition offers the opportunity to disclose a major part of archives never presented before by the publishing house and treasures from the BnF and other libraries. Among these rare items, an outstanding selection of manuscripts, first editions, correspondences and photographs is on view.