French publishers (people)

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Chapters: French book publishers (people), French magazine publishers (people), French newspaper publishers (people), French printers, Robert Estienne, Henri Estienne, Jodocus Badius, Étienne Dolet, Guillaume Morel, François Coty, Pierre Giffard, Émilien Amaury, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Maurice Girodias, Antoine-François Momoro, Robert Hersant, Charles Carrington, Christophe Plantin, Didot family, Antoine Vérard, Gérard Lebovici, Daniel Filipacchi, Johann Heynlin, Jean Achard, Merten de Keyser, Martin Morin, Charlotte Guillard, Cino Del Duca, Pierre Attaingnant, Anatole Hulot, Nicolas Jenson, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, François Maspero, Marcel Boussac, Raymond Lakah, Yves Manglou, Jean-Joseph Marcel, Charles Hirsch, Jean Fontenoy, Arnaud Lagardère, Vincent Bolloré, Alfred-Henri-Amand Mame, Serge Dassault, Auguste Poulet-Malassis, Guy Marchant, Alphonse Lemerre, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, École Estienne, Sebastian Gryphius, Geoffroy Tory, Pedro Ocharte, Claude Gervaise, Théophraste Renaudot, André Le Breton, François-Charles Oberthür, Guillaume Rouillé, Théodule Tellier, Jean-Luc Lagardère, Petrus Maufer, Pierre Vidoue, Firmin Didot, Simon de Colines, Louis Christophe François Hachette, Laroche-Valmont, Jean Crespin, Max Fourny, Ulrich Gering, Elias Gaucher, Philippe Amaury, Alphonse Alkan, Félix Alcan, Antoine Galland, Guillem Agel i Barrière, Antoine Vitré, Christian Zervos, Jean-Yves Le Fur, Abraham Savgrain, Jean-François Bizot, Paul Winkler, Guillaume Fichet, Gaston Gallimard, Moyse Alcan, Pierre Guillaume, Eric Losfeld, Maurice Schwob, Honoré Champion, Jean-Pierre Brunois. Excerpt: François Coty (born Joseph Marie François Spoturno; 3 May 1874, Ajaccio, $2 - 25 July 1934, Louveciennes) was a French perfume manufacturer, newspaper publisher, and founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française. The company he founded in 1904 is now Coty, Inc., based in New York City. Joseph Marie François Spoturno was born on 3 May 1874 in Ajaccio, Corsica. He was a descendant of Isabelle Bonaparte, an aunt of Napoleon Bonaparte. His parents were Jean-Baptiste Spoturno and Marie-Adolphine-Françoise Coti, both descendants of Genoese settlers who founded Ajaccio in the 15th century. His parents died when he was a child and the young François was raised by his great-grandmother, Marie Josephe Spoturno, and after her death, by his grandmother, Anna Maria Belone Spoturno, who lived in Marseille. After spending some years in military service, François met a fellow Corsican named Emmanuel Arène. A politician, writer, and future senator, Arène became François's mentor, offering him a job in Paris as his secretary. In Paris, François married Yvonne Alexandrine Le Baron and took the more French-looking name Coty, a variation on his mother's maiden name. He also met Raymond Goery, a pharmacist who made and sold perfume at his Paris shop. Coty began to learn about perfumery from Goery and created his first fragrance, Cologne Coty. Through Arène, Coty met Antoine Chiris, a senator and member of the Chiris family, longtime manufacturers and distributors of perfume. At the Chiris factories in Grasse, Coty studied perfumery and began work on a fragrance, La Rose Jacqueminot. On his return to Paris in 1904, Coty set off to sell his scents to department stores, boutiques, and barbershops, but initially met with little success. His luck changed when he dropped a bottle of La Rose Jacqueminot on a countertop at the G...