If you stay in Paris in the beginning of september, don’t miss until the 18th, the exhibition in National Archives in the Marais.« Experiencing chaos : destructions, spoliation and rescuing archives. 1789-1945 » You can also buy the book which offers documents of the exhibition and other ones. It is in French but with a lot of reproductions  and  photos, including one of the burned mauscripts of Timbuktu, Mali, in 2013.
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