Quid (lexicon)
| Quid
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| description | French encyclopedic reference work |
| language | French |
| publishing company | Editions Robert Laffont (FR) |
| First edition | 1963 |
| attitude | 2008 |
| ISSN (print) | 0532-6656 |
Quid was a one-volume encyclopedic reference work that was published annually from 1963 to 2007 by the French publisher Éditions Robert Laffont .
Print version (1963–2007)
The presentation was very condensed, used abbreviations extensively and was kept in the telegraphic style. Quid was founded in 1963 by Dominique Frémy. The motto of the work was tout sur tout ... et tout de suite (in German roughly: "Everything about everything ... and immediately").
With 2200 pages, the 2007 edition was roughly the format of an extensive dictionary.
There was no longer a version in 2008, as Éditions Robert Laffont no longer published the book due to falling sales. For the 2009 edition, the search for a new publisher was ultimately unsuccessful.
Online version (1997-2010)
From 1997 to March 25, 2010 Quid was also available on the Internet. In addition to the complete current edition, the website quid.fr offered daily news, a world atlas with 6,000 maps and lexical entries on the 36,380 French communities with details on their history, geography, sights and economic life.
Faurisson scandal
In the 2002 edition, under the heading Auschwitz, there is a longer list of various estimates of the number of victims in the Auschwitz concentration camp. At the end of the list, which begins with the highest ratings, is Robert Faurisson , known as a Holocaust denier , who is called a "revisionist" in Quid. According to Faurisson, there were only 150,000 dead at the lower end of the scale, including a hundred thousand Jews, most of whom died of typhus. The estimates were listed side by side without comment.
Various Jewish and anti-racist organizations took legal action against the mention of Faurisson. The publisher promised to revise the chapter for the next edition. But the 2003 edition appeared with identical text. The same associations filed another lawsuit and obtained a fast-track ban. The publisher apologized, and the court refused to withdraw the three hundred thousand copies that had been delivered. (The cost of this was given as two million euros.) Quid spoke of a “manufacturing defect” and wanted to place newspaper advertisements and put up a poster in the bookstores pointing out the error. Copies not yet delivered were given a supplement.
Quid (magazine)
In March 2011, Editions Robert Laffont published the Quid Magazine for the first time , a magazine that is to appear in two editions a year. It has the subtitle: N ° 1 pour tout savoir (“the number 1 to find out everything”).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le Quid ne paraît pas en 2008 mais lance l'offensive against Wikipédia . ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French)
- ↑ Le Quid 2008 ne paraîtra pas en librairie . Radio France (French)
- ↑ Jürg Altwegg: Article. In: FAZ , November 16, 2002
