Payot & Rivages

Payot & Rivages
Parent companyActes Sud
PredecessorLagardère Group
Founded1877, 1912, 1984
FoundersPayot family, Édouard de Andréis, Jacqueline & Jean-Louis Guiramand
Country of originFrance
Headquarters locationParis, Lausanne, Marseille
Key peoplePascal Vandenberghe (Payot CEO, 2004-2024)[1]
Fiction genresCrime fiction, philosophy, social sciences, translated literature, tourist guides
Official websitehttps://www.payot-rivages.fr

Payot & Rivages is an independent French publishing company, based in Paris, formed by the merger of Éditions Payot and Éditions Rivages in 1992, then for many years it was part of the Lagardère Group, and finally it was acquired by Actes Sud in 2013. The Payot side has the longest history and is best known for its chain of bookstores (Payot Librairie) in Switzerland and France. The Rivages side has a long tradition for publishing acclaimed and contemporary literature and philosophy.

History

Payot & Rivages - Festival du Livre de Paris 2015

Éditions Payot was founded in 1877 in Lausanne[2] by Fritz Payot[3] and expanded to France in 1912.[3][4] His descendant Jean-Marc Payot sold the Payot company to the Swiss group Edipresse in 1986.[3] That same year, François Guérif established the Noir fiction division at Rivages,[5] which to this today has published authors like James Ellroy and Donald Westlake.[4]

In 1990, Hachette Distribution Service, a subsidiary of the Lagardère Group, acquired a majority stake in Payot. The company rebranded its bookstores under the new name and logo of "Payot Libraire." The publishing house also operated independently despite its corporate takeover.[3]

In 1992, Éditions Payot merged with Éditions Rivages, which had been founded in 1984 by Édouard de Andréis along with Jacqueline and Jean-Louis Guiramand in Marseille.[5][4] Rivages brought into "Payot et Rivages" its extensive catalogue of literature and fiction. Rivages was also known for La Petite Bibliothèque Rivages, founded in 1988 by Lidia Breda, as a library of contemporary thought. Its nearly 1,000 titles include authors such as Giorgio Agamben, Anne Dufourmantelle, and Corine Pelluchon, and also continues to publish works by Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Karl Kraus, Arthur Schnitzler, and Hermann Hesse.[5]

In 2004, Payot & Rivages was still part of the Lagardère Group when Pascal Vandenberghe became the CEO on the Payot side; Vandenberghe departed in 2024.[6][7] Actes Sud acquired Payot & Rivages in 2013.[4]

Awards and distinctions

The Collection Petite Bibliothèque Rivages won the Publisher's Prize from Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco 2021.[8] The Petite Bibliothèque Rivages series is directed by Lidia Breda at Payot & Rivages.[8]

Rivages collections

  • Noir collections including detective fiction published by François Guérif at Éditions Rivages from 1986 to present: Rivages/Noir
  • Titles of Noir fiction published by François Guérif at Rivages and by Alexis Nolent at Casterman between 2008-2013: Rivages/Casterman/Noir
  • Thriller and mystery novels published at Éditions Rivages between 1988-2003: Rivages/Mystère

References

  1. ↑ "Pascal Vandenberghe, PDG des librairies Payot, annonce son départ" [Pascal Vandenberghe, CEO of Payot bookstores, announces his departure]. Actualitte (in French). 1 February 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  2. ↑ "Qui sommes-nous?" [Who are we?]. Payot.ch (in French). Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Histoire". Payot.ch (in French). Archived from the original on 16 September 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Beuve-Méry, Alain (3 January 2013). "Actes Sud rachète Payot & Rivages" [Actes Sud buys Payot & Rivages]. Le Monde (in French). Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 "L'histoire des éditions Rivages". Rivages. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  6. ↑ Dufour, Nicolas. "Après vingt ans de luttes, Pascal Vandenberghe quitte Payot". letemps.ch. Le Temps Suisse. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  7. ↑ "Les librairies Payot sont reprises par leur directeur général" [Payot bookstores are being taken over by their CEO]. rts.ch (in French). RTS Info. 17 June 2014. Archived from the original on 14 September 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  8. 1 2 Martinet, Clément (11 May 2021). "Rencontres philosophiques de Monaco : la mention honorifique 2021 pour la Petite Bibliothèque Rivages". Culture. MonacoHebdo. Archived from the original on 7 September 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
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