Presses universitaires de France (PUF; English: University Press of France), founded in 1921 by Paul Angoulvent (1899–1976), is a French publishing house.
Companies that then took stakes in PUF included Flammarion Publishing (17% in 2000, 18% currently) and insurer Maaf Assurances (9%, 8% currently).
[1] In 2006, another insurance giant Garantie Mutuelle des Fonctionnaires (GMF) injected capital into the PUF, taking a 16.4% stake in the publisher.
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