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The
Bibliothèque Mazarine is the oldest
public library in
France.
History
The Bibliothèque Mazarine was initially the personal library of cardinal
Mazarin (1602-1661), who was a great bibliophile. His first library, arranged by his librarian,
Gabriel Naudé, was dispersed when he'd to flee
Paris during the
Fronde.
He then began a second library with what was left of the first, assisted by the successor to Naudé, François de La Poterie. At his death he bequeathed his library, which he'd opened to scholars since 1643, to the
Collège des Quatre-Nations which he'd founded in
1661. Reopened in 1682, the Mazarin library has occupied the eastern wing of the
Bâtiments du Collège since its inception. The Collège des Quatre-Nations became in 1805 the
Palais de l’Institut de France.
By the time of the
French Revolution, the Bibliothèque Mazarine sheltered more than 60000 volumes. The library, became public and received a considerable number of books seized from the nobles or from religious congregations. Among its collection of
incunabula is a specimen of the
Gutenberg Bible known as the
Bible Mazarine.
Former
French president François Mitterrand's once illegitimate and hidden daughter
Mazarine Pingeot is said to be named after this library because of her parents' love for books.
Librarians
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