different. Indeed, not one but four books have been removed from France’s national library (which contains a collection of more than 16 million books), over concerns that their covers may be ...

France’s national library has set aside four 19th-century books to test for potential arsenic contamination. The chemical may have been used to colour the emerald green binding of the books ...

The National Library of France is the guardian of priceless treasures that tell our history, our illustrious thinkers, writers, scholars and artists. Telling the story of the exceptional treasures ...

Credit: National Library of France On January 4, 1254, a French monk named William of Rubruck had his first audience with the Great Khan Mongke at the khan’s encampment in Mongolia. Rubruck ...