Come and discover 3,000 books from 14° to 19° century. Two presentations will be made by Mr. Moënard at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Guided tour with presentation of some books by Nataliia Canac.
The exhibition of the Heritage Fund is open on the occasion of the JEP, it will remain visible until October 7 included.
The Heritage Fund of the Médiathèque d'Orange brings together around 3000 works from the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries (up to 1830).
The donation of the Baron de Stassart around 1810, taken out of the crates in 1815 and representing about 1000 works, served as a basis for the creation of the Orange library. Subsequently, the library was regularly enriched by numerous donations and bequests from Vaucluse personalities.
The Orange Library is one of the few libraries in France founded from a private donation and not from revolutionary confiscations.
The Fonds patrimonial contains some notable works such as the Tableau de l'Histoire des princes et principauté d'Orange by Joseph de la Pise (two volumes of 1639 and 1641), the Chroniques de Jean Froissart (1514 – the oldest book in the Fonds), General history of drugs of the seventeenth century by Pierre Pomet, Architecture or Art de bien bastir by Marc Vitruve (1572), Factitious collection on the History of Orange of the seventeenth century, the Holy Bible translated in Francis by the theologians of the University of Louvain of the seventeenth century, etc.
The Heritage Fund is a very important resource for studying and knowing Orange, its history and its territory.