The Bibliographie de la France. Journal Général de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie (originally entitled Bibliographie de l'Empire français ou Journal de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie) was created by imperial decree on October 14, 1811. It was issued by the Cercle de la Librairie, de l'Imprimerie et de la Papeterie under the supervision of its president assisted by an editorial board. The publication was issued weekly and divided into three parts: Bibliographie, Chronique, and Feuilleton. The Bibliographie listed all new works published in France, including books, musical compositions, maps, engravings, lithographs, photographs, and the deposits and registrations of foreign publications. This data was provided by the Ministry of the Interior. When the weekly issues were compiled into annual volumes an annual index and systematic tables were included. How inclusive the Bibliographie actually was is not known. The Chronique included official documents and information on French and foreign laws of interest to publishers, printers, and engravers. The Feuilleton was devoted to announcements of publications relating to literature, science, the arts, and publishing, printing, and engraving and thereby served as a catalog of publisher's catalogs.
The current version of the Bibliographie de la France is the Bibliographie nationale française, whose musical section for very recent music indeed can be found here.
BNF's digitized collection of the Bibliographie de la France may be found here.
Unless otherwise stated copies found at the Internet Archive have been transferred from Google Books.
