Georges Crès

Georges-Célestin Crès (1875 – 13 December 1935) was a French editor and bookseller, highly active early in the 20th century.

An autodidact, he began writing in 1905 under the pseudonym Jean Serc, with his first article, "Un clérical athée, M. Jules Soury," appearing in the Mercure de France.

[1] Crès worked with Adolphe van Bever to produce a collection titled "Les Maîtres du livre" ("The Masters of the Book"), which included woodcuts by Pierre-Eugène Vibert [fr].

[2] The Swiss section of the French foreign ministry's propaganda office sent Crès to Switzerland in July 1916, and he was tasked with establishing two French-language bookstores in Zurich and Bern.

After a serious car accident, Crès sold his printing house in 1925 to René Gas and Camille Sauty.