The French National Library (BnF) houses some fifteen million documents, thanks to le dépôt légal, which requires that a copy of every publication–web sites and television programs as well as books and periodicals–be housed at the BnF. This is not unlike the function of the Library of Congress and the Copyright office in the United States; however, what makes the BnF special is that the legal deposit was first enacted in the 1500s under François I. This library has been around a long time (albeit in different forms.) Also, the above ground structure is in the shape of four open books.
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