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Éditions Du Rocher is the business name of Éditions Du Rocher SA, a company providing news, books, and magazine publishing services.
The company was founded in 1943 by Charles Orengo (1913-1974) and is based in Monaco with production facilities in Paris, France.
As of March 11, 2009, Editions du Rocher, SA operates as a subsidiary of Desclée De Brouwer.

Launched in the midst of a shortage of paper, while the French territory is not completely free from the Nazi occupation, the house publishes eighteen books from 1944. The first of them will be a work of Georges Duhamel.
Foreign literature is also present with the novel 'Un cœur fier' (A proud heart) of the American Pearl Buck, published in 1945.
In 1948, the company moves to 28, Rue Comte Félix Gastaldi on the rock in Monaco. This is still the headquarters' address.
From 1949, Charles Orengo moved to Paris as technical advisor to the management of the Plon bookstore. Éditions Du Rocher then goes through a difficult economic period.
In 1953, the house is in full recovery and its catalog is enriched with the authors like Jean Cocteau, Henri Michaux, Pierre Reverdy, Ernst Jünger, Jorge Luis Borges, Alban Berg and Serge Lifar, to name only the greatest. During this prosperous period, the house is also honored by the collaboration of Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso for two illustrated luxury books.
But in 1964 the financial situation deteriorated again and in October 1965, Éditions Du Rocher became a subsidiary of the Presses de la Cité group.

From 1965 to 1977, no comprehensive editorial policy coordinates publications and all the titles published over that period are quite disparate.

In 1977, Jean-Paul Bertrand, then financial director of the group, obtains the possibility of publishing some quality works and enriches the catalog of about fifty titles.
It is with the publication, in November 1980, of Nostradamus: historian and prophet of Jean-Charles de Fontbrune - incredible success with more than 1.3 million sold copies - that Jean-Paul Bertrand really raises the editions of Éditions Du Rocher.

When Christian Jacq becomes literary director, the number of publications increases from two to four titles per month. New collections are emerging: « Équilibre », « Les Maîtres de la littérature policière », « L’Esprit et la Matière ».

In November 1987, Jean-Paul Bertrand left the group Presses de la Cité and bought Éditions Du Rocher, which then found the independence of its beginnings.

Distribution and distribution were entrusted in 1990 to CDE and SODIS, subsidiaries of Gallimard.


The house becomes a haven for young authors such as Thierry Ardisson, Frédéric Berthet, Patrick Besson, Alain Bonnand, Olivier Frébourg, Jean-Michel Gravier, Marc-Edouard Nabe, Daniel Picouly, Eric Neuhoff and Jean-Rene Van der Plaetsen.
The house installs its Parisian offices in Saint-Sulpice where it hosts many confirmed authors - Jean-Edern Hallier, Alphonse Boudard, etc. -, joined by young writers to whom she gives their first chance: Philippe Delerm, Michel Houellebecq, Joel Egloff, Shan Sa, to name a few.
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