The Spirit of Les Oies Sauvages Éditions
Les Oies Sauvages Éditions is an independent publishing house founded in Paris. We publish little — six to ten titles a year — and we choose them carefully.
We believe French public debate would benefit from listening more closely to what is being thought elsewhere, and from better hearing the voices at home that speak with precision rather than volume. It is this twofold movement — toward the foreign first, toward the personal next — that shapes our editorial line.
We publish two kinds of books.
Essays on the transformations underway: technological change, economic realignment, political shifts, and the redefinition of work and power. We give preference to foreign authors whose thinking has not yet found a French publisher, and to French authors who refuse the easy path of commentary.
And life stories of entrepreneurs, leaders, researchers, and witnesses, when a personal trajectory teaches readers something about their own times: lives that illuminate.
Why “Les Oies Sauvages”?
These wild geese are travelers, crossing continents in formation, taking turns at the head of the flight, shielding one another from headwinds by leaning on each other. Their endurance rests not on the strength of any single bird, but on the intelligence of a collective that knows when to carry and when to let itself be carried.
We chose this name because it says something about our work. To publish a book is exactly that: bringing together an author, an editor, sometimes a translator, a designer, a proofreader, a bookseller, a reader — a flight in formation that travels farther than any one of them could alone. And it is also what we look for in our authors: journeys that knew how to catch the wind, change course, and go the distance.
The Founder
Les Oies Sauvages Éditions was founded by Christophe Ginisty, former head of the communications agency Rumeur Publique, former president of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA), and former head of digital communications at the OECD. The author of several books on communication, influence, and the digital world, he spent many years observing the mechanics of public narrative from the inside. He is founding a publishing house today because he believes there are still voices that deserve to be heard — and that a well-run independent house remains the best place to make that happen.