La Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes The Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes represents a long and storied tradition in popular French print culture. Spanning more than 250 years and involving the publication of mass-produced, inexpensive books that were sold to peasants for pennies by colporteurs (peddlers), the Bibliothèque Bleue was comprised of texts ranging from the practical (recipes, almanacs, and how-to books) to the pious (hagiographies, prayer books, and other religious instruction) and to the entertaining (fiction, romans de chevalerie, songbooks, burlesque), providing a unique insight into the popular culture of 17th to mid-19th century France. The most significant collection (some 2570 volumes) of Bibliothèque Bleue material can be found at the Médiathèque de l'Agglomération Troyenne (MAT), whose digitzation efforts - digital page images of some 623 separate imprints - will form the basis of the Bibliothèque Bleue Online. SEARCH the Bibliothèque Bleue Online A cooperative effort between the Médiathèque de l'Agglomération Troyenne (MAT), The ARTFL Project of the University of Chicago and the Collaborative Initiative for French and North American Libraries (CIFNAL), the Bibliothèque Bleue Online is comprised of the full text and page images of Bibliothèque bleue titles, encoded using the TEI-Lite data specification and loaded under PhiloLogic. New (8/2009) - Thanks to the contiued support of CIFNAL and the ARTFL Sustaining Members we have recently digitized and corrected 136 new titles that have been added to the Bibliothèque Bleue Online, which now includes 252 works.