Gustave Doré occupied a central place in the visual culture of the nineteenth century. It marked the imagination of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, and comics - he is considered one of the founding fathers - and film.
The Orsay Museum devotes a virtual exhibition.

"There is no human species, there is a human race. This is because we are men like them that the SS will ultimately powerless before us."
This testimony of Robert Antelme, Deported Resistance to Buchenwald to Dachau and then released thanks to the intervention of François Mitterrand, had not immediately impact it has today.

Period of profound change, the civilization of the Renaissance will be completely new design of the book in the decades that constitute it.

The library is pleased to offer this intellectual journey through this civilization disappeared bibliophiles to his friends.

Our catalog of modern books of January 2015:

First editions, authors mailings, fine bindings.

The invention of printing is one of the most important victories of thought on ignorance and obscurantism.

D'Etienne Dolet Editions de Minuit, writers, publishers and printers together led the fight for the emancipation of nations
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The National Library honors the victims of the attack by exposing in his room of the Press and Media drawings collections signed Cabu, Charb, Wolinski and books on religious caricature and the history of Charlie Hebdo.

"That with joy one takes pleasure in prosperous peace;

Let there be fish processing dragons;

One day soon you rise in rank "

The exhibition "In Praise of scarcity. One hundred treasures of the Rare Books Reserve" is at the National Library of November 25, 2014 I 1st February 2015

the rooms offer presented in their diversity, a panorama of forms and possible definitions of scarcity.