History of the Collège de France and the Bibliothèque nationale de France

june 2, 2021

Study day, June 14, 2021 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., room 2

Study day organized as part of "Passage des disciplines: histoire globale du Collège de France, ^{XIXe -XXe} siècle" by Pr Antoine Compagnon, Littérature française moderne et contemporaine: histoire, critique, théorie and the Comité d'histoire de la Bibliothèque nationale de France.

There have been numerous encounters between the Collège de France and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, starting with the projects of François ^I and his successors in the ^16th century, and continuing through the later stages of the two institutions' development. The aim of the study day is to launch in-depth research into the role of professors in building up collections, and vice versa, into the role of collections in the evolution of disciplines, among other crossovers. Professors from the Collège de France have been attached to the Bibliothèque nationale at various times in its history, as curators at the Bibliothèque nationale or in one of its departments, or served as administrators. They have contributed, among other responsibilities, to the cataloguing of collections, right up to the modern era, when Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Professor of the History of Modern Civilization at the Collège de France from 1983 to 1999, and General Administrator of the Bibliothèque nationale from 1987 to 1994, worked to computerize the catalog.

Speakers from the Collège de France, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Archives nationales will take the floor during the day's six lectures. The first two sessions will define the field of research and present the documentary resources of each institution. Two other sessions will look at the regulatory texts of the two establishments under the Second Empire, and the image of the Collège and the Bibliothèque nationale in the press during the same period. The speakers in the other two sessions will look at specific collections, such as the Hebrew collection, and then the constitution of the papyrological collection in relation to the birth of papyrology.

Admission free of charge, subject to availability (half-capacity public).