Yann Sordet, director of the Mazarine Library and the Library of the Institut de France, stated that the Mazarine Library – ...

The viral video did not show the biggest library in France being burned down by rioters. Instead, it showed a Manila Central Post Office in the Philippines on fire in May 2023. Given that the verified ...

A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is raising money to buy it. By Elaine Sciolino A prelude and dance by the French ...

Every time I turn up to my office in Paris, I gaze up at its French classicism meets Baroque beauty, crowned by a resplendent Italianate dome. Then a series of sculptures of learned men (they didn’t ...

A July 4 Instagram video shows a large building on fire. "Paris, France," reads the post's caption. "How do you feel about the arson attack on the Bibliothèque nationale de France?" The caption goes ...

With a sinuous, meandering form that blurs the line between interior and exterior, the new Media Library in Thionville, France, is a unique public space. Dominique Coulon & Associates designed the ...

The French national library BNF has launched a prototype version of its contribution to a European digital library aimed to be one of the European alternatives to US digitalisation of books and ...