Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

La bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (BSG) est une bibliothèque interuniversitaire et publique située au 10, place du Panthéon, dans le 5e arrondissement de Paris. Elle occupe au cœur du Quartier latin un bâtiment édifié entre 1843 et 1850 par l'architecte Henri Labrouste à l'emplacement de l'ancien collège de Montaigu, agrandi depuis. Elle est l'héritière de la troisième plus importante bibliothèque d'Europe, en son temps, que l'ancienne abbaye Sainte-Geneviève de Paris voisine, transformée en École centrale à la Révolution, abritait au dernier étage de ce qui est aujourd'hui le lycée Henri-IV.

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Sainte-Geneviève Library

Sainte-Geneviève Library is a university library of the universities of Paris, administered by the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University located at 10, place du Panthéon, across the square from the Panthéon, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. It is based on the collection of the Abbey of St Genevieve, which was founded in the 6th century by Clovis I, the King of the Franks. The collection of the library was saved from destruction during the French Revolution. A new reading room for the library, with an innovative iron frame supporting the roof, was built between 1838 and 1851 by architect Henri Labrouste. The library contains around 2 million documents, and currently is the principal inter-university library for the different universities of Paris, and is also open to the public. It is administratively affiliated with Sorbonne Nouvelle University.

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Collège de Montaigu

The Collège de Montaigu was one of the constituent colleges of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Paris.

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Cujas Library

Cujas Library, named after the French jurist and scholar Jacques Cujas, is an academic research library, and the largest law library in Europe. It is located in the Latin Quarter, next to the Panthéon and Sainte-Geneviève Library, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.

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Montagne Sainte-Geneviève

The Montagne Sainte-Geneviève is a hill overlooking the left bank of the Seine in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was known to the ancient Romans as Mons Lucotitius. Atop the Montagne are the Panthéon and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève. The side streets of the Montagne feature bars and restaurants, for example, in the Rue Mouffetard. Moreover, the former campus of the École Polytechnique, located on the Montagne, now is the Ministry of Research. On the other side of the Montagne lie the rue d'Ulm and the École Normale Supérieure. Around AD 1110, the scholar and philosopher, Peter Abelard, established a school on the Montagne; twenty-six years later, Abelard returned, in the year 1136.

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Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques-Doucet

The Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques-Doucet is a public library in Paris, France. It was established in 1929 upon the death of fashion designer Jacques Doucet. The collection of works assembled by the patron Jacques Doucet, on the advice of the writer André Suarès, started in 1916, and grew thanks to prestigious librarians and advisors, such as André Breton, Louis Aragon, Marie Dormoy and Robert Desnos. When Doucet died in 1929, his collection was bequeathed by will to the University of Paris, which transferred the works to the Place du Panthéon, under the direction of Marie Dormoy until the 1950s. Designed to bring together the literature of what would later be called modernism and its precursors, the collection includes works by Stendhal, Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire and André Malraux. Various funds and collections were later added to the original legacy. As a university and research library of last resort, open to researchers, students and professionals by reservation, it has two reading rooms. However, its operations are regularly marred by irregularities in the twenty-first century: the management of various funds, and even the misappropriation of many elements of certain legacies for the benefit of members of the management, have forced various inspection bodies to carry out audits, and its supervisory authority to lodge complaints on several occasions.

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C'est aujourd'hui une bibliothèque d'État à la fois interuniversitaire (universités Paris 1, 2, 3, 4 et 7) et publique, accessible à toute personne majeure ou titulaire du baccalauréat. Ses collections sont encyclopédiques et totalisent environ deux millions de volumes répartis en trois fonds :

la Réserve, principalement pour les fonds anciens, rares et précieux ; le Fonds général comprenant les ouvrages, périodiques et autres documents publiés de 1811 à aujourd'hui ; la Bibliothèque nordique (accès au 6 rue Valette), proposant un très riche fonds finno-scandinave dont l'origine remonte aux collections de l'abbaye.