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The historic cradle of the Bibliotheque nationale de France, the Richelieu site near the Palais Royal housed the national collections for centuries and reopened in 2022 after a long and careful restoration that transformed it into a cultural destination in its own right. Books have been kept on this site since the seventeenth century, and the buildings grew piecemeal over generations, their crowning glory the great oval reading room and the celebrated Salle Labrouste, an iron-and-glass space of ...