Exhibition “The Factory of Collections”: the Donations to the Sainte-Geneviève Library

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 10, place du Panthéon

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Find in the hall of Sainte-Geneviève Library this new exhibition that reveals, through around a hundred books and archives, the history of donations and the precious enrichment of its encyclopedic collections by its readers and patrons. As heir to the collections of the abbey of the same name, which bear the imprint of great donations and are preserved for the Nation by the French Revolution, the Sainte-Geneviève Library sees its role strengthened by the attribution of the Printer's Legal Deposit in 1828 and then its installation in 1851 in the jewel box built to measure by Hen...