Guides Joanne

Cover of guide to Toulouse, 1914

Map of geographic regions covered in the Guides Joanne series, 1912

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]

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

• Les bains d'Europe (in French), 1860, OCLC 77330822 – via Internet Archive
• Itineraire descriptif et historique de l'Allemagne (in French) (2nd ed.), 1862
• De Poitiers à la Rochelle (in French), 1862
• Guide Parisien (in French), 1863, OCLC 18592529
• Paris illustré (in French), 1867
• Célestin Port (1867). De Paris a Agen (in French).
• France: Le Nord. 1869. + index
• Èmile Isambert (1881). Itinéraire descriptif, historique et archéologique de l'Orient (in French).
  • v.1: Turkey + index
  • v.2: Egypt
  • v.3: Syria
• Louis Piesse (1888). Algérie et Tunisie (in French).
• Le Mans (in French), 1888

1890s-1900s

• Bretagne (in French). 1890.
• Grece: Athenes. 1890
• Luxembourg. 1895
• Nancy (in French). 1895.
• Dijon (in French). circa 1896
• Les Vosges et l'Alsace. 1898. + contents
• Savoie (in French). 1898.
• Le Nord (in French). 1899.
• Alger. 1901
• Normandie (in French). 1901.
• Rouen (in French). 1901.
• Bordeaux (in French). 1902.
• Toulouse (in French). 1902.
• La Loire (in French). 1903.
• Tours (in French). 1905.
• Nice, Beaulieu and Monaco. 1906. (in English)
• Paul Joanne (1906). Provence (in French).
• Bourgogne, Morvan, Nivernais, Lyonnais (in French). 1907.
• Auvergne et centre (in French). 1908.

1910s

• Belgique et Hollande. 1911. + index
• Pyrénées (in French). 1912.
• Vallée de la Meuse; Ardenne, Grotte de Han, Gd-Duché de Luxembourg. 1912
• Vosges, Lorraine, Alsace (in French). 1913.
• Cévennes, Languedoc (in French). 1914.
• Le Havre (in French). 1914.

See also

Guide Bleu, est. 1919

References

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. Nordman 1997.
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. Les Lieux de mémoire (in French) (Gallimard).

External links

• Items related to Guides Joanne (via Digital Public Library of America)