The manuscript given to France's national library Thursday begins simply, yet seductively: "The story of Jacques Casanova ... written by himself." "Himself" is the 18th century lothario, spy, writer ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PARIS — Ribald and X-rated, a French national library exhibit is banned to anyone under 16. The exhibit offers a peek at France’s long-secret library of ...

A librarian in northern France made what may be the discovery of his lifetime when he uncovered a rare Shakespeare’s First Folio in his library’s collection. There are fewer than 240 known copies of ...

France"s national library said last week that it had removed four 19th-century books from its shelves whose emerald green covers were likely laced with highly poisonous arsenic. The library said ...