Bibliothèque Bleue
With the term Bibliothèque Bleue ("blue library"), because of their simple blue cover, the French entertainment writings are summarized, which correspond to the German folk books . The largest number was produced in Troyes in Nicolas Oudot's printing house . They mostly emerged from the prose resolution of medieval verse novels (e.g. Fierabras , Robert the Devil , Jean de Paris ); but some, like Paris and Vienne , are also Peter of Provence, only available in prose. Many have made their rounds through the literature of Europe and have also moved on to German folk literature.
literature
- Robert Mandrou: De la culture populaire aux 17e et 18e siècles. La bibliothèque bleue de Troyes . Edition La grande livre du mois, Paris 1998. ISBN 2-7028-2494-3 .
- Charles Nisard : Histoire des livres populaires . Maisonneuse & Larose, Paris 1968 (reprint of the Paris 1864 edition).
- Gérard Oberlé : La Bibliothèque Bleue. Belle collection de Livres de colportage du XVIIe au XIXe siècle. Self-published, Montigny-sur-Canne 1983.
- Alexis Socard: Livres populaires imprimés à Troyes de 1600 à 1800. Aubry, Paris 1864.
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 2 . Leipzig 1905, pp. 826-827