The Guide Bleu is a series of French-language travel guides published by Hachette Livre , which started in 1841 as the Guide Joanne .
3-669: Among Hachette's several guidebook series, the Guide Bleu is addressed to those seeking "discovery in depth". 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. From 1917 to 1933, Hachette collaborated with the publisher of the British Blue Guide series, and the Guides Joanne were renamed
6-578: The Black Forest prompted him in 1841 to write up a travel guide, which was the starting point for a whole series of similar and partly more extensive works, which covered not only the most interesting places and landscapes of France, but also of Germany, England, Switzerland, and the Orient . His travel books were published frequently, first under the name Guides Joanne and later from 1919 as Guides bleus . A terser extract of his major travel books
9-635: The Guides bleus in 1919. This publishing -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Adolphe Joanne Adolphe Joanne (born Adolphe-Laurent Joanne ; 15 September 1813 in Dijon , France – 1 March 1881 in Paris) was a French geographical writer and author of travel books. In 1836 Joanne was a lawyer in Paris but he soon turned to journalism. A trip to Switzerland and
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