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Updated: July 25, 2025

In 1789, the Bibliotheque du Roi, as it was till then called, was reckoned to contain one hundred and eighty thousand printed volumes, eighty thousand manuscripts, a prodigious numbcr of medals, antiques, and engraved stones, six thousand port-folios of prints, and two thousand engraved plates. But, under its present denomination of Bibliotheque Nationale, it has been considerably augmented.

Francis W. Blagdon - Paris as It Was and as It Is