Lhe CEO of Fayard Isabelle Saporta has been fired, Hachette Livres announced. Isabelle Saporta had been removed from her position at the beginning of March, she learned Point. On March 8, she was given a letter inviting her to an interview prior to her dismissal.
His ouster is the manifestation of the takeover of Hachette, number three in the world in publishing (Fayard, but also Hatier, Calmann-Lévy, Grasset, Larousse, Le Livre de Pocket, etc.), by the Vivendi group, controlled by the Bolloré group. It has been a few weeks since Isabelle Saporta saw her power within the publishing house diminish in favor of Lise Boëll, formerly Éric Zemmour’s editor, today responsible in particular for the books of Philippe de Villiers. Her detractors call Lise Boëll “the editor of the fascist sphere”.
Isabelle Saporta, former journalist at Europe 1, ended up losing the hitherto unwavering support of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, administrator of the Lagardère group, owned since the fall of 2023 by Vivendi, and close to both Arnaud Lagardère than Vincent Bolloré.
READ ALSO The return to publishing of Arnaud Nourry, ex-boss of HachetteIf Isabelle Saporta boasts of having raised Fayard’s turnover to 34 million euros in 2023 (compared to around fifteen million in 2022), this good year is largely due to the success of contracts signed by her predecessor Sophie de Closets , like the Memoirs of Prince Harry (The Substitute) and the autobiography of singer Florent Pagny (Pagny by Florent).
