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Four enormous glass towers shaped like open books rise around a sunken garden on the banks of the Seine, marking the Francois-Mitterrand site of the Bibliotheque nationale de France, the main building of the country's national library. Conceived as one of the grand presidential building projects of the late twentieth century and named after the president who launched it, the complex was designed by the architect Dominique Perrault and opened in 1996 in the redeveloped Tolbiac district in the sou...