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Guides Joanne

French-language travel guide books

Guides Joanne (est. 1841) was a series of French-language travel guide books to Europe founded by Adolphe Joanne and published in Paris. Routes followed the railways at first,[1] and later volumes guided readers by province.[2]

Cover of guide to Toulouse, 1914
Map of geographic regions covered in the Guides Joanne series, 1912

Titles

  • Adolphe Joanne (1841). Itineraire descriptif et historique de la suisse (in French). Paris: Paulin – via HathiTrust.[3]
  • Adolphe Joanne (1855). Itinéraire descriptif et historique des bords du Rhin, du Neckar et de la Moselle (in French). Paris: L. Maison.
  • De Paris a Bordeaux (in French). Paris: Hachette. 1856.
  • De Paris à Nantes (in French). circa 1856

1860s-1880s

1890s-1900s

1910s

1920s

  • Avignon, Villeneuve, Orange, Saint-Rémy, Arles, Les Baux (in French). 1921.

See also

Guide Bleu, est. 1919

References

  1. [1]
    Stephen L. Harp (2001). Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-6651-7.
  2. [2]
    Nordman 1997.
  3. [3]
    W. A. B. Coolidge (1889). Swiss Travel and Swiss Guide-books. London: Longmans, Green, and Company.

Bibliography

  • Daniel Nordman (1997). Pierre Nora (ed.). Les Guides-Joanne: ancêtres des Guides Bleus (in French). Gallimard. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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