The case concerned a book that the polemicist intended to publish in September 2021, “France has not said its last word”, before launching his campaign for the 2022 election.
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A new setback in court for Eric Zemmour. The former presidential candidate lost, on Wednesday October 25, a lawsuit brought against his former publisher, Albin Michel, whom he accused of an abusive breach of contract in June 2021. The Paris court ruled that the polemicist and his company , SARL Rubempré, “are not justified in invoking an abusive breach of the contract or the failure of SA Éditions Albin Michel to fulfill one of its essential obligations under the contract of May 4, 2015”.
The plaintiff, who claimed more than three million euros in damages, will have to pay 10,000 euros in legal costs from Albin Michel and reimburse 30,000 euros paid under a contract on a book which had not been was delivered on time.
The case concerned a book that the polemicist intended to publish in September 2021, France has not said its last word, before launching his campaign for the 2022 election. After publishing five books by this author, Albin Michel refused this sixth. He saw there “a personal ideological fight which simply does not correspond to the editorial line of a large generalist house”.
“A victimized communication operation”
Eric Zemmour counter-attacked by launching this procedure before the Paris judicial court. “We can be pleased that Justice was not fooled by the crude victim communication operation launched by Eric Zemmour as part of his pre-electoral campaign at the time”wrote Albin Michel’s lawyer, Christophe Bigot, in a press release sent to AFP.
France has not said its last word was finally published by a publishing house created by Eric Zemmour himself, within his company, SARL Rubempré. The work was a success in bookstores, with 272,000 copies sold in 2021, ensuring comfortable income for its author.