From the Alps to the abyss, the centenary of Arthaud editions – Libération

The house launched in 1924 by the grandfather of the navigator Florence Arthaud, focused on the mountains, the sea and the major report, is betting on “opening up more, particularly to ecology”.

The house still bears the name of its founder, even if it no longer belongs to the family – this is customary in publishing today. In 1924, Benjamin Arthaud took over from Jules Rey at the Grenoble bookstore founded at the beginning of the 19th century and the house which published beautiful Books on the Alps. He launched Arthaud editions. In the Team of March 20, 2021, we can read the portrait given by her grandson, Hubert Arthaud, son of Jacques, brother of the navigator Florence: “Our grandfather was a hard worker, and only rested on Sunday afternoons. He had an authoritarian manner, was both non-conformist and innovative, capable of installing beehives on the property and also raising a cow there for milk. Likewise, last week at Rostand in Paris, where the centenary was celebrated, Hubert Arthaud spoke of the atmosphere at home, the group of friends of his father – the navigator Bernard Moitessier and others – who disembarked with bags on their backs, a sleeping bag just in case, remaking the world by smoking, adventurers of the peaks or the seas, it seemed for eternity.

From the beginning, Benjamin Arthaud published geographical and altitude texts – Leading Rope de Roge