National Heritage and libraries in France since 1945
Defining the place of written heritage in French libraries since 1945 requires a dual analysis based at the same time on the policies for national heritage and on the representative collections that these create. The image conveyed by their contents is the reflection of a passionate relationship with historical inheritance, alternating between rejection, embarrassment, rehabilitation - elements which are unlikely to be propitious in engaging the long term commitment of the powers that be.
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