Books in France

{{further|Global spread of the printing press#France|Manuscript culture#Booksellers in Paris}}

{{see also|:fr:Histoire de l'imprimerie en Bretagne|:fr:Histoire de l'imprimerie à Lyon|:fr:Histoire de l'imprimerie en Mayenne}}

In 1292 the book-trade of Paris consisted of 24 copyists, 17 bookbinders, 19 parchment makers, 13 illuminators, 8 dealers in manuscripts.{{cite book |title=Chambers's Encyclopaedia |location=London |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/chamberssency02lond#page/310/mode/1up |volume=2 |chapter= Book-trade |year=1901 |title-link=Chambers's Encyclopaedia }}

In Paris in 1470, Martin Crantz, Michael Freyburger, and Ulrich Gering produced the first printed book in France, Epistolae (letters), by Gasparinus de Bergamo.{{sfn|Claudin|1898}} In 1476 in Lyon appeared one of the first printed French-language books, La Légende Dorée (Golden Legend) by Jacobus de Voragine.

The French royal library began at the Louvre Palace in 1368 during the reign of Charles V, opened to the public in 1692, and became the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1792. The Centre National du Livre (Center for the Book) formed in 1946. The {{illm|Salon Livre Paris|fr}} began in 1981.

The history of the book in France has been studied from a variety of cultural, economic, political, and social angles. Influential scholars include Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, Elizabeth Eisenstein, and Henri-Jean Martin.

{{further|Bookselling|:Category:Bookstores of France}}

The {{illm|Cercle de la Librairie|fr|Cercle de la librairie}} (book trade union) organized in 1847 in Paris, and the Syndicat National de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne booksellers association in 1914.

L'Express started a bestseller list in 1961, and {{illm|Livres Hebdo|fr}} started one in 1984.{{sfn|Lacôte-Gabrysiak|2010}}

• The Reader (1988 film)
• Hugo (film), 2011, includes brief scene in fictional Paris bookshop

• Collection (publishing)
• Copyright law of France
• Legal deposit: France
• Media of France
• French literature
• French bibliophiles
• {{illm|Libraries in France|fr|Bibliothèques en France}}{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science |isbn= 9781466552593 |edition=4th |year=2016 |chapter=France |author=Martine Poulain |publisher= Taylor & Francis |author-link=:fr:Martine Poulain}}
• Libraries in Paris
• List of book fairs in France (in French)
• List of book-burning incidents, some in France
• French children's books
• Musée de l'Imprimerie (printing museum), Lyon, est. 1964

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• {{cite book |title=List of Bibliographical Works in the Reading Room of the British Museum |oclc= 3816244 |location=London |edition=2nd |editor1= G.W. Porter |editor2= G.K. Fortescue |year= 1889

|chapter= Bibliographies of Countries: France

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/listofbibliogra00brit#page/n23/mode/2up

|via= Internet Archive

}}

• {{cite book |title=The First Paris Press: an account of the books printed for G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in the Sorbonne, 1470-1472 |author=Anatole Claudin |url=https://archive.org/details/firstparispressa00clauuoft |location=London |publisher=Chiswick Press for The Bibliographical Society |year= 1898

|ref= {{harvid|Claudin|1898}}

}}

• {{cite book |title= Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum |url= https://archive.org/details/b29003611_0004 |author= Robert Proctor |location=London |publisher= Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company |oclc=6438080 |year= 1898

|chapter= Books Printed From Types: France |pages= 561+

|via= HathiTrust

|hdl= 2027/uc1.c3450632 |author-link= Robert Proctor (bibliographer) }}

• {{cite book|title=Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books |author1= Alice Bertha Kroeger |author2-link= Isadore Gilbert Mudge |author2= Isadore Gilbert Mudge |publisher=American Library Association |edition=3rd |year= 1917

|chapter= Bibliography: National and Trade: French

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/guidetostudyand03mudggoog#page/n200/mode/1up

|author1-link= Alice Bertha Kroeger }}

• {{cite book |title=French Book Trade in the Ancien Regime, 1500-1791 |author=David T. Pottinger |isbn=9780674432581 |year= 1958

|publisher=Harvard University Press }}

• {{cite book|editor=Allen Kent |title=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science |volume=23 |publisher=Marcel Dekker |isbn=978-0-8247-2023-0 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tmnVublw2pwC |display-editors=etal |year= 1978

|chapter=Printers and Printing

|title-link=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science }}

• Printing in France before 1501, p. 342+
• 16th Century: France
• 17th Century: France
• 18th Century: France
• {{citation |author=Roger Chartier |title=Frenchness in the History of the Book |url=http://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44539410.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society |volume=97 |year= 1987

}} {{free access}}

• {{citation |work=British Library Journal |location=UK |issn=1478-0259 |url= https://www.bl.uk/eblj/1993articles/article1.html |year= 1993

|title= Two unrecorded incunables: Rouen, circa 1497, and Lyons, circa 1500

|author= David J. Shaw

}} {{free access}}

• {{cite book|editor1= Philip G. Altbach |editor2= Edith S. Hoshino |title= International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia |publisher= Garland |isbn=9781134261260 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xuWEc20g0-cC |year=1995

|chapter= France

}}

• {{cite book|author=Robert Darnton|title= Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EqkybhL_t2IC|publisher=Norton|isbn=978-0-393-31442-7|year=1996

}} ("What did the French read in the eighteenth century?")

• {{cite book |title= Europa World Year Book 2004 |isbn=1857432533 |publisher= Europa Publications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGA4o-UhAfgC |year=2004

|chapter= France: Directory: Publishers |page= 1700+

}}

• {{cite book |title=French Vernacular Books: Books Published in the French Language before 1601 |editor1= Andrew Pettegree |editor2= Malcolm Walsby |editor3= Alexander Wilkinson |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004156876 |volume=1-2 |year=2007

}} + Volumes 3-4 (2011): Books published in France before 1601 in Latin and Languages other than French

• {{cite book|editor1=Michael F. Suarez |editor2=H. R. Woudhuysen |title=The Book: A Global History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbacAQAAQBAJ |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn= 978-0-19-967941-6 |year= 2013

|chapter= France |author= Vincent Giroud

}}

• {{citation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/13/french-language-international-book-publishing |work=Guardian |location=UK |title=French book publishers risk being lost in translation without global reach |date= 13 May 2014

}}

• {{citation |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/opinion/pamela-druckerman-the-french-do-buy-books-real-books.html |title=The French Do Buy Books. Real Books |author= Pamela Druckerman |date=9 July 2014

|author-link=Pamela Druckerman }}

• {{citation |title=Bibliographie de l'Empire français |language=fr|title-link=:fr:Bibliographie nationale française}} 1811-
• {{citation |title=fr:Revue française d'histoire du livre |publisher=Société des bibliophiles de Guyenne |language=fr |oclc=647906247 |title-link=:fr:Revue française d'histoire du livre }} 1971- [http://www.rfhl.org/pages/sommaires-des-derniers-numeros/]
• {{cite book |editor1= Henri-Jean Martin |editor2= Roger Chartier |title= Histoire de l'édition française |isbn=2213024006 |location=Paris |language=fr |edition=2nd |year= 1989–1991}}
• {{cite book |title=L'édition française depuis 1945 |editor=Pascal Fouché |editor-link=:fr:Pascal Fouché |publisher=Éditions du Cercle de la Librairie |isbn=2-7654-0708-8 |language=fr |year= 1998}}
• {{cite journal |author=Lylette Lacôte-Gabrysiak |title= C'est un best-seller! Meilleures ventes de livres en France de 1984 à 2004 |trans-title= Bestselling books in France from 1984 to 2004 |journal=Communication |issn=1920-7344 |publisher=Université Laval |location=Canada |volume= 27 |doi= 10.4000/communication.3130 |doi-access=free |language=fr |via= Revues.org |year= 2010|ref= {{harvid|Lacôte-Gabrysiak|2010}}}}

File:Cercle de la Librairie.JPG|Cercle de la Librairie in Paris, built in 1879 (photo 2010)

File:Eugène Atget, Secondhand Book Dealer, place de la Bastille - Getty Museum.jpg|Bookseller, Place de la Bastille, Paris, {{circa|1910}}

File:LYON - Quai de la Pêcherie.jpg|Outdoor bookselling in Lyon, 2008

File:A reader on the Pont des Arts, 30 August 2009.jpg|Reader on the Pont des Arts, Paris, 2009

File:Cour intérieure de la librairie l'Armitière (Rouen, France).jpg|{{illm|L'Armitière|fr}} bookshop in Rouen, est. 1963 (photo 2013)

File:Public bookcase Bastia.jpg|Public bookcase in Bastia, 2016

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• {{citation |url= http://data.cerl.org/istc/_search?query=place:fr |title= (Place:FR) |work=Incunabula Short Title Catalogue: the International Database of 15th-century European Printing |publisher=British Library }} (Bibliography of editions published in France; also browsable by [http://data.cerl.org/istc/_index/imprintplace town])
• [http://ihl.enssib.fr/en Institut d'histoire du livre] (Institute for the History of the Book), Lyon, est. 2001
• {{citation |url= http://bookhistory.blogspot.com |title= Exeter Working Papers in Book History | editor=Ian Maxted |location=UK }}. (Includes some info on France)
• {{cite web |url= https://www.ifla.org/node/2216 |work= Ifla.org |title= National Bibliographic Register: France |publisher=International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions |location=The Hague }} (Includes books)
• {{cite web |publisher=British Library |location=UK |work= Help for Researchers |url= http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/prbooks/index.html |title= French Printed Collections, 1501-1850 }}
• {{cite web |work=WorldCat |publisher=OCLC |title=(su:Book industries and trade -- France) |url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3ABook+industries+and+trade+France&qt=results_page |location=US }} (Bibliography)

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