{"id":8357,"date":"2012-10-29T17:37:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T15:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/fr\/?page_id=8357"},"modified":"2013-09-17T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T10:57:19","slug":"guizot-and-his-publishers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.guizot.com\/en\/history\/guizot-and-his-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Guizot and his publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"DELPECH<\/a>Fran\u00e7ois Guizot (1787-1874), an orphan without a fortune and raised in poverty, lived most of his long career from his intellectual and literary work. The least we can say is that politics, which he practised between 1814 and 1848, not without intermittence, in various forms - senior civil servant, member of parliament, ambassador and minister - and right up to the top of power, did not enrich him. The second half of his life, in particular, took the form of a long, studious retirement, by temperament but also by necessity. In contrast to his early and enduring fame and the great responsibilities he exercised, the modesty of his lifestyle struck his contemporaries, who were unanimous about his selflessness. When, at the end of the Second Empire, Alfred de Falloux came up to visit him in his small flat at 4e<\/sup> On the first floor of rue Billault, he says: \u00abMy respect for him grows with every step I take.\u00bb<\/p>\n

\"Claire<\/a>C\u2019est donc avec sa plume que, pour l\u2019essentiel, l\u2019historien et homme d\u2019\u00c9tat se procurait les ressources n\u00e9cessaires \u00e0 sa personne et, surtout, \u00e0 sa famille, associant du reste largement cette derni\u00e8re \u00e0 son activit\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9criture, en particulier sa fille a\u00een\u00e9e Henriette de Witt-Guizot{{1}}[[1]]Cf. Fran\u00e7ois Guizot, Letters to his daughter Henriette (1836-1874)<\/em>, \u00e9dition introduite et annot\u00e9e par Laurent THEIS, Paris, Perrin, 2002. Voir l\u2019essai biographique sur Henriette de Witt-Guizot par Catherine COSTE, en t\u00eate de l\u2019ouvrage.[[1]]. Plus de cinquante titres composant plus de cent-cinquante volumes ont paru sous son nom, la plupart en tant qu\u2019auteur, d\u2019autres sous sa direction ou son autorit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Some of these publishers appeared on the intellectual scene at the same time as Guizot, and their practices changed throughout the century, modifying the dialogue between publisher and author in a book economy undergoing radical transformation. Guizot was one of the most popular writers for two-thirds of the nineteenth century, and the number of copies he sold is likely to have been in the hundreds of thousands, although no precise figures are available.<\/p>\n

\"Contract<\/a>Les archives priv\u00e9es de Fran\u00e7ois Guizot{{2}}[[2]]Je remercie vivement Mme Catherine Coste, pr\u00e9sidente de l\u2019Association Fran\u00e7ois Guizot, d\u2019avoir bien voulu mettre ces documents enti\u00e8rement in\u00e9dits \u00e0 ma disposition.
\n[[2]] ont conserv\u00e9 trente-huit contrats conclus entre 1808 et 1872 avec douze \u00e9diteurs fran\u00e7ais diff\u00e9rents sur les dix-sept auxquels il eut affaire, ainsi qu\u2019une demi-douzaine de contrats pour la langue anglaise, au total donc pr\u00e8s des deux tiers des engagements qu\u2019il a contract\u00e9s en 64 ann\u00e9es. Ces instruments juridiques et financiers sont parfois accompagn\u00e9s de la correspondance qui a pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 et suivi leur signature, principalement avec les maisons Didier, L\u00e9vy et surtout Hachette, ainsi qu\u2019avec une traductrice en anglais. Ces \u00e9changes, qui font entrer dans le d\u00e9tail de la n\u00e9gociation, montrent que les rapports \u00e9ditoriaux ne sont pas de tout repos. S\u2019y ajoutent des relev\u00e9s faisant \u00e9tat des r\u00e9impressions et r\u00e9\u00e9ditions, avec leurs tirages.<\/p>\n

De cet ensemble ressortent certains traits p\u00e9rennes. Ainsi, le terme de contrat n\u2019est jamais utilis\u00e9. Le plus courant est celui, d\u2019usage ancien, de \u00ab\u00a0trait\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb, plus rarement de \u00ab\u00a0convention\u00a0\u00bb, dont le dispositif couch\u00e9 sur le papier est parfois nomm\u00e9, au bas du document, \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019\u00e9criture\u00a0\u00bb, qu\u2019approuvent auteur et \u00e9diteur, cette derni\u00e8re raison sociale s\u2019associant puis se substituant progressivement \u00e0 celle de libraire. De plus, les clauses juridiques et financi\u00e8res de tous les accords, si elles se transforment et se pr\u00e9cisent avec le temps, et aussi les rapports de force, portent exclusivement sur les volumes, tomes et exemplaires tir\u00e9s, jamais sur ceux vendus, \u00e0 une exception pr\u00e8s du reste rest\u00e9e sans suite{{3}}[[3]]Il s\u2019agit du projet de contrat avec Napol\u00e9on Chaix en 1851. Voir infra.
\n[[3]]. Enfin, le dispositif d\u2019avance sur les droits d\u2019auteur n\u2019appara\u00eet nulle part ici. La remise du manuscrit, partiel ou complet, ouvre seule droit \u00e0 r\u00e9mun\u00e9ration. Guizot se distingue sur ce point de ses contemporains, comme Chateaubriand ou Lamartine, qui vendent des projets d\u2019ouvrages qu\u2019ils n\u2019ont pas encore \u00e9crits, engageant ainsi leur cr\u00e9dit et leur libert\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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