Hachette Livre

Hachette Livre is a French book publishing group headquartered in Vanves, near Paris, and part of Lagardère Publishing within the Lagardère Group, which it joined in 1981. It traces its origins to 1826, when Louis Hachette founded a bookshop and publishing business in Paris. Its imprints include Grasset, Fayard, Larousse, Hatier and Le Livre de Poche in France, Hodder & Stoughton, Headline and Orion in the UK, and Little, Brown in North America. It also runs partworks and distribution businesses, with publishing operations in countries including Spain, the UK, the US, Australia and India.