Georges Charpentier

Georges Charpentier (December 22, 1846 - November 15, 1905) was a 19th-century French publisher who became known as a champion of naturalist writers, especially Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, and Guy de Maupassant.

He also promoted Impressionist painters and together with his wife, Marguerite Charpentier, built a small but significant art collection.

[3][1][2] In 1876 he created the Petite Bibliothèque Charpentier, a line of affordable editions illustrated with etchings that were targeted at bibliophiles.

[1] Despite the success of Zola's and Flaubert's books in the mid 1870s, Charpentier's firm ran into financial difficulties.

Charpentier's wife, Marguerite, was a salonist whose Friday salons drew writers, artists, actors, musicians and politicians to their house.