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

The National Library of France has undergone an extensive renovation, and relics from Charlemagne to Voltaire are now on display. By Elaine Sciolino PARIS — King Dagobert’s bronze throne.

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 ...