Ribald and X-rated, a new exhibit at France's national library is banned to anyone under 16. The exhibit that opened this week offers a peek at France's long-secret library of libido, where, starting ...

France's National Library launched a public appeal for donations on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of unpublished documents belonging to Marcel Proust, including some showing how the famed writer ...

After years of “sending love letters to France,” OMA has won a competition to design a regional library in the northwestern city of Caen, says associate in charge Clément Blanchet. It will be the firm ...

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 ...

France's National Library in Paris is a haven for both readers and researchers, who silently flick through its 14 million books. FRANCE 24 takes you behind the scenes to meet the library's restorers.

House of Wisdom (HoW) in Sharjah welcomed Gilles PÉCOUT, President of the National Library of France (Bibliothèque Nationale de France), in a visit aimed at strengthening institutional ties and ...

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 ...

Boston singer-songwriter Will Dailey and his band are currently on tour in France, and on Friday night were in the town of Fougeres, roughly 200 miles away from the terrorist attacks in Paris.

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 ...