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It’s a cruel irony that the single instance of these beautiful libraries I’ve managed to see in person (the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris) was book-free at the time. Damn renovations!
I’m disheartened that an equally beautiful Parisien bookroom – the Bibliotheque Mazarine – isn’t pictured. Perhaps the patrons – unlike me – actually noticed the “no photographs” warning at the entrance?