Éditions Rencontre (Meeting Editions) was a left wing publishing house in Francophone Switzerland founded in Lausanne in 1950.
[1] Éditions Rencontre was founded as a co-operative society on 16 June 1950.
[2] It was founded with the aim of establishing La revue Rencontre, a youth culture magazine despite the founders having no experience in the publishing world.
[2] The six founding members were:[2][3] However, they soon involved Pierre Balthasar de Muralt, who soon became the principal person running the company, particularly after the review and the publishing house split.
[2] In 1953 they started producing the "Great Novels" series, under the direction of Louis Guilloux.