Album de la Pléiade

The Album de la Pléiade is a book published every summer by Bibliothèque de la Pléiade about one of its authors. The selection of an author generally corresponds to a major new addition to the corpus of his or her works in the Bibliothèque, which is a French-language collection of classic French and international texts. The book is richly illustrated and focusses on iconography. An accompanying bibliographical text is prepared by a renowned specialist of the selected author.

The "Album de la Pléiade" share the same leather-bound format with the books of the Bibliothèque de la Plèiade, but have generally fewer pages and are printed on thicker paper to allow the inclusion of many colour images.

The Albums are not for sale. They are offered by the booksellers to customers who purchase three books from the collection. They tend to be distributed very quickly and immediately become collectors' items.

List of the albums (1960-2008)

Here is a list of the Album de la Pléiade.

*1960 - Dictionary of the authors of the Pléiade, considered as the precursor to the albums.
*1961 - Poètes du XVIème siècle, a 33 rpm record containing poems by 16th century poets read by renowned actors (the best-known being Maria Casarès) and accompanied by a booklet in Pléiade format containing all featured poems
#1962 - Honoré de Balzac
#1963 - Émile Zola
#1964 - Victor Hugo
#1965 - Marcel Proust
#1966 - Stendhal
#1967 - Arthur Rimbaud
#1968 - Paul Éluard
#1969 - Saint-Simon
#1970 - Classical theater
#1971 - Guillaume Apollinaire
#1972 - Gustave Flaubert
#1973 - George Sand
#1974 - Charles Baudelaire
#1975 - Fyodor Dostoevsky
#1976 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#1977 - Céline
#1978 - Blaise Pascal
#1979 - Henry de Montherlant
#1980 - Jean Giono
#1981 - Paul Verlaine
#1982 - Albert Camus
#1983 - Voltaire
#1984 - Colette
#1985 - André Gide
#1986 - André Malraux
#1987 - Guy de Maupassant
#1988 - François-René de Chateaubriand
#1989 - The writers of the French Revolution
#1990 - Lewis Carroll
#1991 - Jean-Paul Sartre
#1992 - Jacques Prévert
#1993 - Gérard de Nerval
#1994 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
#1995 - William Faulkner
#1996 - Oscar Wilde
#1997 - Louis Aragon
#1998 - Julien Green
#1999 - Jorge Luis Borges
#2000 - NRF
#2001 - Marcel Aymé
#2002 - Raymond Queneau
#2003 - Georges Simenon
#2004 - Denis Diderot
#2005 - The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
#2006 - Jean Cocteau
#2007 - Montaigne
#2008 - André Breton