BIBLIOTHÈQUE ROYALE. Manuscrit, Minute du Rapport sur la reconstruction de la Bibliothèque, 1835 ; cahier de 36pages in-fol. This handwritten minute bears numerous autograph corrections by François-Xavier, comte de Sade (1777-1846, deputy for Aisne), and comes from his archives. A commission was set up on November 28, 1835, "to examine the question of which location should preferably be assigned to the Royal Library, either to maintain it in the premises it currently occupies, or to move it to another district, and to deal at the same time with various other related questions"... .The report retraces the history of the library and its expansion, outlines the wealth of its various departments, and stresses the need to give it "a home worthy of it and made for it, by placing it in a building which, both by its internal layout and its external appearance, is reminiscent of its intended purpose"...; it then examines the various projects and locations envisaged: in addition to the extension of its current location, the Clos Saint-Lazare, the Place Dauphine, the Luxembourg nursery, the Place Bellechasse, the latter being his preferred location...