François Wahl (13 May 1925 - 15 September 2014) was a French editor and structuralist.
[1] François Wahl was editor at the Éditions du Seuil, a publishing company in Paris.
[4] and he became friends with Roland Barthes and Philippe Sollers.
[6] In 1987, Wahl, acting as Roland Barthes's literary executor, published his essays Incidents, which tells of his homosexual bouts with Moroccan young men, and Soirées de Paris, which chronicles his difficulty to find a male lover in Paris.
[7] Wahl met with controversy, compounded by the fact that he refused to publish more of Barthes's seminars.