Bibliothèque bleue
GENRE OF EARLY MODERN FRENCH LITERATURE
Bibliothèque Bleue; Bibliotheque bleue; Claude Garnier; Veuve Oudot; Nicolas Oudot
("blue library" in French) is a type of ephemera and popular literature published in Early Modern France (between and ), comparable to the English chapbook and the German . As was the case in England and Germany, that literary format appealed to all levels of French society, transcending social, sex, and age barriers.