Galerie Mansart & Galerie Mazarine

The Bibliothèque nationale de France is the French National Library, which is located in Paris. This is intended to be a repository of all that was published in France. By 1896, the library had become the largest repository of books in the world, but it has since been surpassed by other libraries for that title. In a sumptuous seventeenth century decor, temporary exhibitions presented in the Galerie Mazarine, the former library of the Cardinal famous for its painted ceiling decorated with mythological themes by Romanelli and the Galerie Mansart which housed the art collections of Cardinal Mazarin. These thematic exhibitions express the encyclopaedic nature of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and appeal to the resources of the different departments, completed by pieces from national and foreign collections.