Labels:text | screenshot | black and white | font | letter OCR: The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, or VOYAge IN National Library of France draws on an france old tradition of collection and conservation of the country's heritage. As far back as 1368, Charles V set up a library in the Louvre with almost 1000 manuscripts. And, after moving many times from residence to residence, the king's library found a home in Paris in 1570. It was opened to the public in 1692 and, in 1720, installed in the buildings of the "Richelieu quadrilateral," bordering the street of the same name. Continually growing and cramped for room, the library, now "national" rather than royal, has been shifted to a new home, on the quai de Tolbiac, centered on four great towers in the shape of open books where the most modern technology is placed at the public's service, permitting access to ten million volumes, one million sound recordings, three hundred and fifty thousand periodicals .... In short, the entire memory of a nation.
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