Antoine Gallimard

Antoine Gallimard (born 19 April 1947 in Paris) is a French publisher and company boss, president of Éditions Gallimard and Groupe Madrigall.

Biography Antoine Gallimard is one of the four children of Claude Gallimard and Simone Gallimard, son and daughter-in-law of Gaston Gallimard, the founder of Éditions Gallimard in 1911. Antoine Gallimard has four daughters including Charlotte (1980–), appointed CEO of Casterman in November 2012.

Claude Gallimard succeeded his father, Gaston Gallimard, at the head of Éditions Gallimard in 1975. Antoine Gallimard was entrusted in 1988 by his father to take the reins of the publishing group In spite of his youth and his relative lack of experience, Antoine Gallimard (who had thought of becoming a professor of philosophy, and whose father had forcibly steered him towards the Faculty of Law in Assas) imposed himself and succeeded in bringing out Gallimard of the family conflict in which they had almost foundered. On 5 January 2003, Antoine Gallimard announced that he and his close associates in the holding company Groupe Madrigall now owned 98% of the family business, following the repurchase of minority shareholders. In February 2011, in an interview with Télérama, he explained the state of the company, a hundred years after its creation:

Antoine Gallimard was president of the . Récipiendaire de la Creu de Sant Jordi Award.