Twelve years of work, hardly a controversy, not a lost work in the move and a colossal budget of 261.3 million euros confirmed at each stage.
The BnF emerges victorious from a long process to rehabilitate its historic site on rue de Richelieu, ie 58,000 m2 in the heart of Paris.
Coming from the royal past, frequented until now by advanced researchers and students, Richelieu has just set foot firmly in the 21st century.
New entrance, new museum, new garden designed by Gilles Clément, new Rose Bakery café, heritage areas open to visitors for the first time - the site displays its desire to be open to the outside world, a place to visit as much as a reading center.
Transparency and brightness are the watchwords of this renovation, as evidenced by the new large reception hall,
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