On the occasion of Mother's Day, the Feu Follet presents an exceptional piece: a single copy of the Dance of Sophocles, Cocteau, dedicated to his mother.

Roland Barthes would have been 100 years old in 2015 and the BNF is organizing an exhibition that pays tribute to the man who was at once an intellectual, a theorist of language and literature and a writer.

The library offers its finest pieces currently at the Grand Palais, a rare book fair, Stand G6.

The Awakening of Modern China at the Cernuschi Museum: Lingnan School

Thanks to the rich collection of the Hong Kong Museum and the loan of Japanese works by European museums and private collectors, the Cernuschi museum traces the birth of this school.

The comic with Scripture Dotremont, Duchamp, Picasso, the famous House of Balzac Balzac and meet the CoBrA movement by dialogue "painters of writing" of the nineteenth century (Théophile Bra, Victor Hugo) with modernity ( Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Asger Jorn, Henri Michaux).

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.

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.