Life At Bonnier - Abbe Bonnier

A Publisher's Dream

Albert "Abbe" Bonnier lives up to the name he shares with his grandfather's grandfather.

photo by Magnus Skoglöf

Abbe Bonnier is a man of action.  In the spring of 1997, French television showed a documentary on Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor-in-chief of Elle, who had been paralyzed completely by a stroke. The heart-wrenching story captured the hearts of French audiences and sent the book publishing world into a frenzy.