Guided tour of an 18th century library

Name: Visite guidée d'une bibliothèque du XVIIIe siècle
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Académie de Stanislas / Bibliothèque

An exceptional library opens its doors.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

©Ville de Nancy

An exceptional library opens its doors.

Founded in 1750, the Stanislas Library is one of Nancy’s oldest cultural institutions.
Guided tours will allow you to discover the reading room and its 18th century woodwork, the history of the institution, but also a part of the old and contemporary collections that it preserves.

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Visite commentée / Conférence

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À propos du lieu

Académie de Stanislas / Bibliothèque

43 rue Stanislas, 54000 Nancy

Meurthe-et-Moselle
Grand Est

By decree of 28 December 1750, Stanislas Leszczynski, King of Poland and Duke of Lorraine and Bar, established a public library in Nancy and constituted a college of censors whose mission was to select the books of the library and to award prizes, to encourage the practice of Sciences, Arts and Belles Lettres de Lorraine.
On December 27, 1751, an edict of Stanislas conferred a status on the «Royal Society of Sciences and Belles Lettres de Nancy» which would later be called «d'Académie de Stanislas». Stanislas’s spirit, which was that of the Enlightenment, continued to reign in the Academy throughout its history.
It comprises 36 full members and an indefinite number of local corresponding partners, residing in or near Nancy. It is also composed of national correspondents and international correspondents.
Its mission is always the same: to bring literary, artistic and scientific life to the highest level in Lorraine, to defend and make known the values which presided over its creation, i