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Jean Grouet

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Jean Grouet was a French publisher, scenarist and assistant in the french movie industry.[1] Between 1959 and 1973 he worked regulary as a an assistant for Claude Chabrol[2], Vadim (https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/francoise-sagan-dernieres-revelations_813581.html?cmp_redirect=]

A friend of Françoise Sagan and Bernard Frank, Jean Grouet founded Éditions Rupture and achieved success in 1977 with the publication of Rafaël Pividal's Pays Sages.[1] He later founded les nouvelles Editions Rupture.

After the success of "Pays Sages" he published almost thirty novels and essays. Among the most importants was "Front Polisario : l'âme d'un peuple. suivi d'un entretien avec Jean Lacouture Ahmed-Baba Miské" , "Le Socialisme à visage urbain" de Garnier et Goldschmidt and also a reedition of "Adolphe" by Benjamin Constant.

He then worked as an Editor at the "Quai Voltaire" where he publishes "Le moulin d'Andé" (Collective). Friend of the Freustie's he cofounds with Christiane Freustié, Jacques Brenner the ""Freustié prize" and participates to jury for many years. Jean Grouet knew the Freustie's since the 1950 when they helped the Algerian resistance , lending appartements and carrying suitcases for the FLN.

He said that the manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom was given to him by Natalie de Noailles -- daughter of Viscount Charles de Noailles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, a direct descendant of Sade.[2] In 1982 Grouet smuggled the manuscript to Switzerland and sold it to Gérard Nordmann, a Swiss collector of erotica.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Patrick Besson, "Chronique de Patrick Besson" PressReader, August 27, 2020
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sciolino was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Clive Aslet, "Erotic sale of the century" The Telegraph, April 20, 2006