Il faut sauver les éditions Faton
French publisher Éditions Faton, founded in Dijon in the early 1970s by Louis Faton and later run by his daughter Jeanne Faton, is facing severe financial difficulties due to declining print subscriptions and rising production costs. The company was sold to the Pidevmedias group in 2023, backed by billionaire Franco-Lebanese businessman and art collector Iskandar Safa, who described the firm as a "little jewel" of publishing. The article calls for readers to support Faton through subscriptions to La Tribune de l'Art.
The plight of Éditions Faton highlights the broader crisis facing cultural publishing and press in France, where traditional revenue models are collapsing under the weight of digital transition costs and inflation. As a specialized art-history publisher, Faton's potential loss would diminish access to scholarly art content and weaken the ecosystem of French art criticism and historical research, making its survival a matter of cultural heritage preservation.