 Bernard Steele left the company, because of Céline's pamphlet "Mea culpa" (1936).Robert Denoël himself was murdered in 1945 possibly by French terrorists, along with many others who collaborated with the Germans, during the period of lawlessness following the liberation of Paris.Today, the Éditions Denoël publish around one hundred titles per year, spanning different collections covering fiction, non-fiction, and even comic books.