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 ...

1623 collection of plays – one of only 230 believed to exist – lay undisturbed in library at St-Omer for 200 years A rare and valuable William Shakespeare first folio, which was the first complete ...

Chemical thought to be in emerald green covers of four 19th-century books identified by Poison Book Project France’s national library has removed four 19th-century books from its shelves whose emerald ...

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 ...