LBY4546957: Salle des Imprimes 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
ITR4553920: Detail of the lower lintel of the eardrum of the Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris: Saint Etienne, held by a Roman soldier of African origin, is taken to the Sanhedrin to be a judge. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris - Paris 4 - XIIIth, XIIIth, XIXth, rehabilitation by Viollet-le-Duc - / Bridgeman Images