Ritual and print. discipline and invention: the fete in France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution -- Texts and images. the arts of dying, 1450-1600 -- From texts to manners. a concept and its books: Civilite between aristocratic distinction and popular appropriation -- From words to texts. the Cahiers de doleances of 1789 -- Publishing strategies and what the people read, 1530-1660 -- Urban reading practices, 1660-1780 -- The Bibliotheque bleue and popular reading -- The literature of roguery in the Bibliotheque bleue.