The National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France or BnF), is one of the oldest French cultural institutions, having inherited the royal collections built up since the end of the Middle Ages. Its mission is to collect various works under the legal deposit system, as soon as they are made available to the public: printed, graphic, photographic, sound, audiovisual, multimedia documents. 

Established in 1537 by François I, legal deposit allows the collection, conservation and consultation of documents of all kinds, in order to constitute a reference collection, an essential element of the country's collective memory. It is designed as the memory of the cultural heritage disseminated on the national territory and therefore includes foreign works published, produced or disseminated in France.  

The BnF promotes the heritage it preserves by making it available to the public through access on its various sites, on the internet with the Gallica site and in partnership with publishers of stationery, fabrics, decorative objects, etc. to distribute reproductions of works of which it is the custodian to the general public. 

Zazous Editions is very honoured to be one of its partners for the publication of collections of cards and notebooks to be discovered in independent bookstores and on the BnF sites, quai François Mauriac and at the Richelieu library.

To find out the addresses of the bookstores closest to you, please contact us by clicking here.