Palais Bourbon - Library

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

  • Palais Bourbon seen from quai des Tuileries

  • The Palais Bourbon at night

  • Library of the Palais Bourbon

  • Decoration of the salon du Roi by Eugène Delacroix

  • The hemicycle of the National Assembly

  • Page 14 of the Codex Borbonicus

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