Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PARIS — Ribald and X-rated, a French national library exhibit is banned to anyone under 16. The exhibit offers a peek at France’s long-secret library of ...

1623 collection of plays – one of only 230 believed to exist – lay undisturbed in library at St-Omer for 200 years A rare and valuable William Shakespeare first folio, which was the first complete ...

LONDON — It’s billed as the world’s largest library of film-related books, comprising some 3,000 titles. Given that so many of them deal with American films and that Westerns constitute the single ...

A librarian in northern France made what may be the discovery of his lifetime when he uncovered a rare Shakespeare’s First Folio in his library’s collection. There are fewer than 240 known copies of ...

Growing up, Katrina Greer, owner of The French Library (3811 Magazine St., 504-267-3707; www.thefrenchlibrary.com), says she always had her head buried in a book. After obtaining her bachelor's degree ...

Muriel Castille arrived in St. Martin Parish from La Rochelle, France, 30 years ago. She came to teach French in local schools, and she quickly settled into life in Louisiana after getting married and ...

The National Library of France has undergone an extensive renovation, and relics from Charlemagne to Voltaire are now on display. By Elaine Sciolino PARIS — King Dagobert’s bronze throne.

Chemical thought to be in emerald green covers of four 19th-century books identified by Poison Book Project France’s national library has removed four 19th-century books from its shelves whose emerald ...

PARIS – France’s national library said on April 25 that it had removed four 19th-century books from its shelves, whose emerald green covers were likely laced with highly poisonous arsenic. The library ...