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Exhibition “The making of collections”: donations to the Sainte-Geneviève Library
Culture · Wednesday, September 23 · 10:30 · Paris
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 10, place du Panthéon
Free
Meet this new exhibition in the hall of the Sainte-Geneviève Library. Through about a hundred books and archives, it sheds light on the origin of great gifts and the precious enrichment of its encyclopedic collections by readers and patrons. Inheritor of the abbey's collections, which bear the marks of great gifts and are preserved for the Nation by the French Revolution, Sainte-Geneviève Library sees its role strengthened by the attribution of the Legal Deposit of the printer in 1828 and its installation in 1851 in the case built to measure by Hen…
