LBY4546952: Salle des periodiques de la bibliotheque Richelieu, Bibliotheque nationale, Palais Mazarin, 58 rue de Richelieu, Paris 2nd arrondissement. It was Napoleon III who entrusted Henri Labrouste with the reconstruction of the imperiale library, which the increase in collections made indispensable... We no longer knew where to put the books From 43,000 books in 1688, we had gone up to 800,000 books in 1851. Since 1996, the national bibliotheque de rue Richelieu has merged with the Bibliotheque nationale de France-Tolbiac. Construction between 1859 and 1867 / Bridgeman Images
LBY4546944: Salle des Periodiques de la bibliotheque Richelieu, Bibliotheque nationale, Palais Mazarin, 58 rue de Richelieu, Paris 2nd arrondissement. It was Napoleon III who entrusted Henri Labrouste with the reconstruction of the imperiale library, which the increase in collections made indispensable... We no longer knew where to put the books From 43,000 books in 1688, we had gone up to 800,000 books in 1851. Since 1996, the national bibliotheque de rue Richelieu has merged with the Bibliotheque nationale de France-Tolbiac. Construction between 1859 and 1867 / Bridgeman Images
ITR4553639: The oculus of the eardrum of one of the two windows of the chapel of Noailles, with the arms of the cardinal, painted in the middle of the 18th century by Jean Le Vieil. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images
ITR4553652: The funeral monument of Archbishop Affre in the present Saint-Denis chapel of the Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris. Named arsheveque of Paris in 1840, he was killed on a barricade of the faubourg Saint-Antoine during the emeutes of June 1848 Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXeme, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images