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 newly found notebook documenting the composer’s lessons with a student includes seven previously unknown compositions. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the ...

Four books have been quarantined in the National Library of France. Here’s why. Warning: Spoilers for the book and film 'The Name of the Rose'. Remember Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film The Name of the Rose ...

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 ...

Formerly known as the Bibliotheque du Roi, the Richelieu site of the National Library of France near the Palais-Royal has finally completed construction after almost 10 years of renovations. The ...

A lot can change in four decades. In its comprehensive renovation of the relatively young Renaud-Barrault Library in Avignon, Jakob + MacFarlane’s (J+M) task was not only to repair degraded building ...