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From the School of Advanced Study, University of London:

Emmanuelle Chapron | The Loan Registers of the 18th-Century Royal Library of Paris: A History of Readers, Books, and Institutions
Online, via Zoom, 4 June 2024, 5.30pm

The study of the loan registers of the Royal Library of Paris helps us to understand the use of the library and manuscripts in the 18th century, leading to a history of institutional trust and the library as archive.

In association with the History of Libraries seminar series. All are welcome; those wishing to attend should book a free ticket here.

Emmanuelle Chapron is Professor of Modern History at Aix-Marseille Université and Ecole pratique des hautes études, Paris. She is a specialist of the history of the book and libraries as well as history of scholarship in early modern times, in France and Italy. Among her publications are Ad utilità pubblica : politique des bibliothèques et pratiques du livre à Florence au XVIIIe siècle (Geneva, 2008) and Livres d’école et littérature de jeunesse en France au XVIIIe siècle (Liverpool, 2021). She is the curator of the digital edition of the letters and papers of Jean Jean-François Séguier (1704–1783). She is currently working in archives in libraries from the 17th century onwards.