Guide Bleu

The Guide Bleu is a series of French-language travel guides published by Hachette Livre, which started in 1841 as the Guide Joanne .

Among Hachette's several guidebook series, the Guide Bleu is addressed to those seeking "discovery in depth". ^[1]

History

Starting with a guide to Switzerland (1841), Adolphe Joanne published a series of guidebooks in France under the name Guides Joanne. This was sold to Louis Hachette in 1855. ^[2]

From 1917 to 1933, Hachette collaborated with the publisher of the British Blue Guide series, and the Guides Joanne were renamed the Guides bleus in 1919. ^{[3] [4]}

Notes

1. ""Hachette Tourisme"". Archived from the original on 2010-08-22. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
2. Allain Collomp, La découverte des gorges du Verdon : histoire du tourisme et des travaux hydrauliques, Édisud, 2002, ISBN   2-7449-0322-1, p 22
3. "Guides bleus". bibliomonde.com. Retrieved 27 May 2008.
4. "History of the Blue Guides", Blue Guides Web site Archived 2011-03-14 at the Wayback Machine