Creating French culture : treasures from the Bibliothèque nationale de France / introduction by Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie ; edited by Marie-Hélène Tesnière and Prosser Gifford.

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press ; Washington : Library of Congress ; Paris : Bibliothèque nationale de France, [1995], ©1995.

xxxix, 479 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, map ; 31 cm

Includes index

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

Images of power and culture in the Carolingian and monastic periods : from the eighth to the twelfth century / John J. Contreni -- Medieval collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France : from the eighth to the fifteenth century / Marie-Hélène Tesnière -- The religion of royalty : from Saint Louis to Henry IV (1226-1589) / Elizabeth A.R. Brown -- The first libraries : Blois, Fontainebleau, Paris / Antoine Coron -- "It's for the king" : sacred and absolute monarchy (1600-1789) / Orest Ranum -- The grand siècle to the French Revolution (1661-1799) / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie -- From the French Revolution to the present / Peter Gay -- National collections and private donors / Florence Callu.