French billionaire defiant as authors quit top publisher
DW | 19.04.2026 17:50
Conservative billionaire Vincent Bollore, the owner of the Hachette group, pledged on Sunday to find new authors to replace the some 170 who have left the prestigious subsidiary Grasset in protest at alleged political interference.
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