Oriental papers/ Western papers

Name: Papiers d’Orient / Papiers d’Occident
Start: 2022-09-18T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Bibliothèque Centrale de Versailles

Oriental Papers/ Western Papers: presentation and exchange around two recent restoration projects.

Dimanche 18 septembre 2022, 16h00Passé

Ségolène Girard, restorer specialized in the preservation of techniques directly on paper or parchment at the Operatorium, gives you an exceptional appointment in the Foreign Affairs Gallery of the Library of Versailles. The opportunity to learn more about her work and to exchange with her on two restoration projects on which she worked for the Library of Versailles.

À propos du lieu

Bibliothèque Centrale de Versailles

5 rue de l'Indépendance américaine 78000 Versailles

Yvelines
Île-de-France

The municipal library of Versailles has been installed since 1803 in the old buildings of the Hôtel des Affaires Étrangères et de la Marine of Louis XV, built between 1761 and 1763\. As a classified library, it retains significant heritage funds from revolutionary confiscations or donations.
The Foreign Gallery, the ceremonial site of the building, was a landmark of French diplomacy from 1763 to the Revolution. Today a place of conservation of 55,000 ancient works, it offers to the eyes of visitors, throughout its row of five rooms, a beautifully preserved decoration and embellished with a portrait of Louis XV by Charles-André Van Loo, of doors made by Louis-AndréNicolas Van Blarenberghe and panels signed by Jean-Jacques Bachelier.