Paul-Joseph Angoulvent (21 April 1899, at Le Mans – 27 July 1976, near Auxerre)[1][2] was a French museum curator and publisher trained at the HEC Paris.
With Albert Morancé, an art editor and head of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, he published numerous catalogs and monographs from Louvre museum funds.
By 1941, during the German Occupation, Angoulvent was launching a number of fast-moving book series, including most notably the Que sais-je?
A key element of Angoulvent's strategy was the bottom-up, low-profit support of quality books for a wide audience.
[3] After 1945, Angoulvent maintained the new editorial equilibrium set up under the Occupation, but now under the defense of French culture and with a positive economic balance, despite the opposition shown by the academic traditionalists, such as Louis Bréhier.