Free visit of the Mazarine Libraries and the Institut de France

Name: Visita libre de las Bibliotecas Mazarinas y del Instituto de Francia
Start: 2023-09-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Bibliothèque Mazarine

Visit of the Mazarine libraries and the Institut de France, as part of the tour of the Palais de l'Institut de France

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

Bibliothèque Mazarine - Cliché G. de Smedt

Visit of the Mazarine libraries and the Institut de France, as part of the visit of the Palais de l'Institut de France

Types d'événement

Visite libre

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Bibliothèque Mazarine

23 quai de Conti 75006 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Today integrated into the Palais de l'Institut, the Bibliothèque Mazarine is the oldest public library in France and one of the richest. Originally the personal library of Cardinal Mazarin (1602-1661), it was opened to the public in 1643\. To ensure its survival, Mazarin decided to join it to the Collège des Quatre-Nations, which he founded shortly before his death. The construction of the college, on the plans of the architect Louis Le Vau, bordering the Latin Quarter and facing the Louvre, lasted about twenty years (1662-1682). The left wing was reserved for the library. The Mazarine Library has not ceased to develop since then; it remains today, more than three hundred and fifty years after its foundation, a library of study and research open to all, as well as a real museum of the book. Its reading room perpetuates the unique decor of a large library of the seventeenth century.