Groupe Flammarion () is a French publishing group, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876 by Ernest Flammarion, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops (La Hune and Flammarion Center). Flammarion became part of the

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media conglomerate

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in 2000.

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acquired Flammarion from RCS MediaGroup in 2012. Subsidiaries include

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. Its headquarters in

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are in the building that was the former

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(named in honour of the writer and philosopher

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), located on the Place de l'Odeon in the current

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. Flammarion is a subsidiary of Groupe Madrigall, the third largest French publishing group.

History

Ernest Flammarion successfully launched his family publishing venture in 1875 with the ''Treaty of Popular Astronomy'' of his brother, the astronomer

Camille Flammarion Nicolas Camille Flammarion Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, FRAS (; 26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astrono ...

. The firm published

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

, Maupassant, and

Jules Renard Pierre-Jules Renard (; 22 February 1864 – 22 May 1910) was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works ''Poil de carotte'' (Carrot Top, 1894) and ''Les Histoires Naturelles'' (Nature Stories, 1896). Among ...

, as well as

Hector Malot Hector-Henri Malot (Hector Malot) (20 May 1830 – 18 July 1907) was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for ''Lloyd Fr ...

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, and a wide list of medical, scientific, geographical, and historical works, including also the Père Castor children's series.

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* {{Authority control Publishing companies of France RCS MediaGroup Visual arts publishing companies Publishing companies established in 1876 French companies established in 1876

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