Consult the press archives
Are you looking for an article from an old newspaper? Do you want to look up events of the 20th centuries through newspapers of the time? The Bpi allows you to browse newspaper archives thanks to microfilms, databases or websites of other libraries.
Press microfilms
You can consult French and English press microfilms from 1940 :
- Contemporary newspapers and magazines: Le Monde, Le Monde diplomatique, Courrier international, Le Figaro, L’Équipe, Jeune Afrique, Le Canard enchaîné, La Croix, Télérama, Elle…
- Parisian press publications: L’Écho de Paris, Le Matin de Paris, Paris soir, Le Petit parisien, Le Parisien libéré, Le Parisien.
To see the microfilms you’re interested in, ask the librarians of the Accueil desk on level 2 of the library, close to the entrance. Several microfilms readers are available for your use in the Press space. Four digital readers allow you to look at microfilms, zoom into part of a page, and adjust the contrast and brightness to read the articles comfortably. You can scan one or several newspaper pages and/or send them to your email address in PDF format, then print the scanned pages.
See the full list of microfilms available at the Bpi.
Press database
Consult our press databases such as Europresse, PressReader, Le Monde Archive 1944-2000, Vogue, Médiapart, The Economist historical archive and more in Bpi Digital.
The press archives database Bpi doc provides articles on cultural and social news in France and abroad for the period 1997-2013, as well as articles on personalities in the world of arts, literature and shows since 1978.
The articles, which can be searched in the Bpi catalog by selecting “Bpi doc” as “Search base”, are available in full text and image mode. You’ll find articles on the Amazonian forest, the climate, May 1968… for example.
Elsewhere on the web
RetroNews, the BnF press website, provides access to more than 400 press publications between 1631 and 1950. This website complements the resources available on Gallica, and is a digital space for consulting archives, a search tool and a magazine for discovering history through press archives.
Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF: French national library) and its partners. Thousands of new items are added to it each week, with access to several million documents.
Presse locale ancienne (old local press), the other BnF website, gives access to local magazines published in France from their beginnings to 1944.autre site de la BnF, donne accès aux journaux d’intérêt local parus en France des origines à 1944.
Europeana newspapers is a European project proposing digital press archives the BnF is taking part in.
Publié le 30/01/2022 - CC BY-SA 4.0
