Richelieu: An epic Paris library (and its exceptional museum)

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

R is for Richelieu. In this episode, we'll take you inside the newly renovated Richelieu Library, and then its incredible upstairs museum.

This episode is co-hosted by Lina Nordin Gee.

Featured in the episode:

Find the library and museum here.
Address: 5 Rue Vivienne, 75002 Pariss
The app we mentioned is called BNF Richelieu
The museum room I loved was the La Galerie Mazarin

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The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson, find his Substack here.

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0:00.0	Lena, this is the best room I've ever been in.
0:04.4	Yeah, this is fantastic.
0:05.5	I'm not even kidding.
0:06.5	It's amazing.
0:07.3	This is the Mazarin Gallery, and I think my life has changed.
0:34.2	I'm going to... If you can hear the crunching of gravelly sand beneath my feet, he says, exaggerating it.
0:41.1	We are walking through the Palais Royale, and I'm not talking about R is for Royal here.
0:43.3	No, but it could have been.
0:47.4	It could have been, could have been Piers for Palais Royal as well, but no, where we're heading is R is for Richelieu.
0:51.0	Richelieu.
0:52.2	The library, the Bibliotein National Francaise and R is for Richelieu. The library, the Bibliotein Nacional Francaise. And R is for Richelieu, as I said. But before we head
1:00.2	there and look at this massive R is for renovation job, I just want to say hello to Lena, my wife.
1:06.7	Hello there. And I want to go over the character of Richelieu before we go.
1:11.6	All right.
1:12.5	Hard to pronounce.
1:13.6	Yeah, I know.
1:14.5	We'll ask a French person when we get to the library.
1:16.9	But the library, we're going to go into the library and have a look around and tell you all about how to visit and if it's worth it.
1:22.7	And like what it is.
1:24.3	Exactly.
1:24.8	But first, I want to give you a quick idea on Richelieu, because I was reading about him,
1:28.2	this guy.
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