This volume introduces the francophone almanacs published in the German linguistic and cultural world by through the end of the Napoleonic era. It additionally analyzes this previously untapped and largely unknown corpus against the backdrop of literary, cultural and media studies. With regards to francophone almanacs targeting an elite audience, it is apparent that the content is wideranging, while the genre is highly differentiated and transculturally oriented. These periodicals may include literary soft-cover books, lady’s almanacs, royal almanacs, theatre almanacs, muses’ almanacs, antirevolutionary almanacs and state almanacs. All of these qualify the general notion of one public, one audience, or the national literatures. Moreover, they impressively document multilingualism of the German Enlightenment in an European context. This also questions the paradigm shift to the English culture from 1770 onwards, established by historiography, and basically taps a field ignored by national philology.weiterlesen