The 1998 opening of Dominique Perrault’s Bibliothèque Nationale, with its four glazed towers anchoring Paris’s new eastward expansion, also generated a new episode in the life of the library’s former quarters on the Right Bank. That dense city block included 17th-century hôtels along with purpose-built 19th- and early 20th-century structures that had housed the library’s varied collections.
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