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The earliest origins of the Bibliothèque de France library go back to 1368, when King Charles V had his personal library installed at the Louvre. At that time it contained nine hundred and seventeen manuscripts. In 1537, King François I introduced the principle of legal deposit. This meant that a copy of every book printed in the kingdom had to be deposited at the Château's library. This was a great advance for the library as it enabled it to constitute a particularly complete and rich collection. This principle of legal deposit is still in force today. The Bibliothèque de France's collection became larger and larger and solutions had to be found in order to be able to organise the works it held. It was the King's librarian, Abbot |
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| Bignon, who set up the system still in place today. Over the years, the works became more and more numerous and the Bibliothèque de France was too small to hold them. It was in 1988 that the President of the Republic, François Mitterrand, chose to build a new library. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France opened on 20 December 1996. It set itself several important missions, those of enriching its collections, but also of conserving them in the best conditions and even in some cases, restoring them. With 14 departments, a reading room that can seat a thousand people and over 1, 300,000 documents, the BNF is one of the largest libraries in the world. http://www.bnf.fr/ |
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