Raoul Saillard (Paris, publisher, fl. 1930s)

Les Éditions Raoul Saillard was an independent trade publishing house operating in Paris during the mid-to-late 1930s that populated the open commercial market with popular genre fiction and paperback romances. Rather than an underground clandestine imprint, the firm was a registered business whose diverse output ranged from mainstream detective thrillers (such as Ted Burton's L'énigme de China-Town) to standard translations of classical literature, such as Ovid's L'art d'aimer. However, Saillard carved out a distinct bibliographic reputation by routinely pushing the legal boundaries of contemporary French censorship, frequently acting as a low-profile conduit for provocative "confessional" novels, soft erotica, and anonymous Coming-of-Age manuscripts that mainstream literary houses refused to touch.