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The first edition, published in Plon in the first quarter 1963 to 20,000 copies, was the size of a paperback book of 632 pages , with no illustration. Besides a brief table of contents, it included a ten-page index. The author presented the book as a "complete, current, practical and easy to consult." It announced a new edition each year. The next edition, published in the third quarter of 1964, a slightly larger format, reached 824 pages and is presented as a hardcover.

It was first published by Editions Plon (1963-1974) and published by Robert Laffont (1975 to 2007). The encyclopaedia has steadily grown to the size of a large dictionary , information enriched with more than 2200 pages for the edition 2007. The latest editions are co-authored by Michele Fremy 's wife, Dominique Fremy. The encyclopedia has been to partner RTL (1970-2003), Europe 1 (2004, 2005), RTL and LCI in 2006, Europe 1 and I-TV in 2007.

In 2007, Fremy announced that the paper would come out more, a victim of the availability of free information on the Internet. The latest edition is Quid 2007.

It includes:

• 2.5 million information (reviewed by a network of 11,000 specialists worldwide) .

Faced with competition from the Internet, sales decline in recent years . The contract between Editions Robert Laffont the author and the Society of Encyclopedias QUID having expired, the 2008 edition will not appear in print .

Internet

Editor Fabrice Fremy, son of the creator, Quid had created a website to which access was largely restricted to holders of the print edition until October 1997.

The online version, commonly called Quid.fr was then available online for free. It included:

• Towns and villages in France (from the fund Brigitte and Michel de La Torre): The 36,860 communes in France with detailed files. For each county, a form traces its history, says its key natural and human data, lists its major monuments and sights (civilian, military and religious), the salient features of its local life, resources and production ... ;
• World Atlas: over 6000 maps, base maps, data sheets and illustrations of 208 states and territories of the world (countries, regions, cities, historical and natural sites. The satellite images and map of 50 000 sites;
• Daily records of events.

In 2007, the site receives each month approximately one million unique visitors, but the site remains in deficit .

On March 25, 2010, the site is more accessible but no information is available about the cause.

What about specialized

• Grand Quid illustrated in 18 volumes
• May 68 quid
• What about Proust
• Quid de Maupassant
• What about Alexander Dumas
• Quid de la Tour Eiffel
• What about the Presidents of the Republic
• Quid: multimedia (color supplement of Quid 1996)
• Quid World: CD-ROM on the world's states in 1997 Quid

Controversies

The company Quid encyclopedias and Robert Laffont were sentenced on 6 July 2005 by the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris , then relaxed March 7, 2007 by the Court of Appeal of Paris , because of his presentation of the Armenian genocide of 1915 in its editions 2002 , 2003 and 2004 , presenting the Turkish and Armenian positions on the event.

In 2001 and 2002 already, the Quid was prosecuted for having mentioned without comment in the article on Auschwitz , an "evaluation" of the Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson who undervalued so outrageous (divided by 10) the number of victims of the camp extermination . The promise made by the editors of What about removing the figure from the 2003 edition was not required . This figure was eventually removed from the 2004 edition . It was present since 1997. He closed a portion of section Auschwitz enumerating a list of estimates of the number of victims. This list (with digits other than by historians, most meaningless historiographical, or at least a figure concocted) is actually copied from a pamphlet full denier Faurisson published in 1995 and designed to discredit evidence and studies on Auschwitz .

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