The Bibliothèque nationale de France is the national library of France and holds the country's legal-deposit collections, which trace back to the royal library of the Middle Ages and the early modern French kings. Its modern organisation dates from the 1990s, when the new site in the Tolbiac district of Paris, commissioned under President Francois Mitterrand and designed by the architect Dominique Perrault, opened to the public. Four glass towers shaped like open books stand around a large sunken garden. The institution holds millions of books, manuscripts, maps, prints and recordings, and it runs the digital library Gallica, which makes part of the collection available online.
Before and after
- 30 December 1993Holocene calendar
- 1 January 1994Los Chiapas conflict
- 19941994 Genocide against Tutsi
- 1 January 1994North American Free Trade Agreement
- 1994Founding of Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 1994Founding of European Committee of the Regions
- 1994Completion of the Oriental Pearl Tower
- 1994Rise of Houthis
- January 1994Release of Yahoo
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