
(FILES) A woman walks past a bookstore of Grasset & Fasquelle publication in Paris on April 16, 2026. More than 300 authors and figures from the publishing world, including authors such as Leila Slimani, Virginie Despentes, and Emmanuel Carrere, have signed on April 18, 2026 an opinion column in French newspaper La Tribune Dimanche, calling for the creation of a "conscience clause" in the publishing industry, following the dismissal earlier in the week of the CEO of the French edition house Editions Grasset Olivier Nora. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP via Getty Images)

