Evidenced by two anecdotes that cross through the channels of chance in the shelves of the bookstore today.

A collaboration between the Mazarine Library and the Library of Geneva, this exhibition explores the history of inventory practices, classification, cataloging and ordering of knowledge.

The Library of the Arsenal will host Friday, March 20, 2015 a study day devoted to Paul Lacroix, more often known under the pseudonym of bibliophile Jacob.

This event is a unique opportunity to discover the life and works of one of the most famous bibliographers nineteenth century.

(Archimandrite) Sophrony Starets Silouan monk of Mount Athos 1866-1938 Editions Presence, Paris 1973 16x24,5cm, binding of the publisher. First edition of the French translation, one of 45 numbered copies on Arches laid, only major papers.

What are the slice, flat, back, nerves, jaw, slices of a binder?

Gustave Dore & Héliodore Pisan Cervantes, Don Quixote Right now beginning to dawn dawn smiling and ruddy.

Woodcut standing signed in the plate by the artist.

Felicity Lott, classic English soprano singer, Francophone and Francophile, and Jacqueline Bourgès, his musical accomplice, chose the most beautiful melodies to illustrate the Proustian genius.

Alain Square, actor-director, wrote the show from Marcel Proust texts.

An autograph is a handwritten message affixed by an author on a copy of one of his works. It can be specifically addressed to the near of the author, a colleague, and signed or not. Sometimes it is decorated with a drawing (Cocteau), a collage (Prévert) ...