BSU is releasing a digitised version of the Paul Hazard Collection, kept in the Ascoli Library. Paul Hazard was a teacher of French and comparative literature, first in Lyon, then at the Faculty of Letters in Paris and finally at the Collège de France. In 1921, he co-founded the Revue de littérature comparée [Comparative Literature Review]. The majority of the collection contains notes and manuscripts by Hazard, as well as his private and professional correspondence. Within...
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11 January 2023

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BSU is releasing the digitised version of a photographic archive on the history of the Pierre and Marie Curie campus, formerly known as the “Jussieu campus” and which is currently home to the Faculty of Science and Engineering. 171 photographs, 92 of which are collected in an album, taken between 1959 and 1971 by the various campus construction companies document the progress of the work on the site. There are photographs of the Halle aux Vins before it was demolished to build the...
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22 December 2022

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BSU is releasing a digitised collection of 151 letters written by the writer George Sand (1804-1876) to her friend, the painter Louis-Eugène Lambert (1825-1900). His correspondence was donated in 1938 by his second wife to the University of Paris, which deposited it in the library of the Institute of French Language and Literature, whose collections were added to the Ascoli Library in 1971. Louis-Eugène Lambert was a close friend of the writer George Sand. He was the set...
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9 December 2022

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In order to enrich the digitised collection of 19th century theses of the Faculty of Sciences of Paris already available on SorbonNum (316 documents), the Sorbonne University Library is putting 116 other historical theses online, printed versions of which are kept at the Centre technique du livre de l'Enseignement supérieur (CTLES), in order to facilitate their consultation.This new corpus has been digitised on the basis of a scientific selection made by a committee of faculty members...
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13 May 2022

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For the first time, the Sorbonne University Library is publishing the digitisation of part of the “Montessus de Ballore” archive kept at the Mathematics and Computer Science Research Library (Pierre and Marie Curie Campus). The publication on SorbonNum concerns the rich professional correspondence that Robert Montessus de Ballore (Villeurbanne 1870 - Arcachon 1937), a mathematician specialising in probabilities and algebraic continued fractions, received from more than two hundred...
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30 March 2022

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