Prise de parole

The publishing house was established in 1973 by Coopérative des artistes du Nouvel-Ontario, a group of professors and students at Laurentian University. Its first book, released in 1973, was Lignes Signes, an anthology of poetry by Jean Lalonde, Placide Gaboury, Denis St-Jules and Gaston Tremblay. Its first fiction title was Hermaphrodismes, two erotic novellas written by Fernand Dorais under the pen name "Tristan Lafleur".

Their most successful title is Doric Germain's novel La vengeance de l'orignal. In 1996, the firm was involved in the Federal Court of Canada case Prise de parole Inc. v Guérin, éditeur Ltée. after another publishing company published unauthorized excerpts from La vengeance de l'orignal in an anthology for use in schools. The case awarded Germain $10,000 in compensation but found that Guérin's actions were not an infringement on Germain's moral rights as the excerpts were not damaging to his reputation, is now considered a key precedent in the matter of moral rights in Canadian copyright law.