By Claudia Cohen
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PORTRAIT – After thirty years spent at the management of Éditions Droz, a Geneva house created in Paris a century ago and specializing in particular in the sector of medieval and humanist studies, this doctor of theology bows out. A publisher from another era.
Ferdinand de Saussure, Raymond Aron, Pierre Bourdieu, Georges Duby, Marcel Raymond, Jean Starobinski or Alain Corbellari… In rue Firmin-Massot in Geneva, behind a black granite plaque, where you can read in gold letters “Éditions Droz, scholarly books”, a treasure lies hidden, a temple of knowledge populated with works sometimes from another time.
“Scholarship is a term which has somewhat disappeared from usage in our dear XXIe century», confides, over a cup of tea in Paris, Max Engammare, the day after a dinner with his friend, the academician Antoine Compagnon. This gentleman with the air of a dandy, salt and pepper hair, is bowing out this month of April, after three decades spent at the helm of the Droz house, which is part of the tradition of an era where the bookseller and the editor were one. “In thirty years, of the 3000 books that I have published, I have read more than 1500… Very often, I have considered my work as that of a literary critic”smiles this doctor…
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