Library
The extensive library, originally set up from books belonging to the clergy and to aristocrats who left France during the Revolution, contains among others:
- The minutes of Joan of Arc's trial
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau's manuscripts deposited by his widow in 1794
- the Codex Borbonicus
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Palais Bourbon seen from quai des Tuileries
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The Palais Bourbon at night
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Library of the Palais Bourbon
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Decoration of the salon du Roi by Eugène Delacroix
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The hemicycle of the National Assembly
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Page 14 of the Codex Borbonicus
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