Visit of the Old Library and the exhibition Conquering the Unknown

The CCI’s Old Library is one of the few surviving libraries of the many colleges, convents and monasteries which were situated in the Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève area of Paris until the end of the 18th century.

This visit is the opportunity to see the treasures of the Old Library - its three illuminated manuscripts dating from c.1500 – as well as a fascinating temporary exhibition of accounts by 16th, 17th and 18th century travellers. Two rare works generously lent by the neighbouring Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève are exhibited alongside books from the CCI’s Old Library. The curator of the exhibition Conquering the Unknown, Ladislas Latoch, leads the guided visit.