Libraries in France

Growing from the royal library of the French kings and open to scholars since 1692, the national library of France collects everyt...

Heir to the medieval library of the Sainte-Genevieve abbey, this public institution moved in 1851 into a landmark building by Henr...

Built from the library of Cardinal Mazarin and opened to the public by his will in 1647, the Mazarine is the oldest public library...

Created by the revolutionary assembly in 1790 as the first national archive institution in the world, the Archives nationales pres...