The new French library, the Mitterrand National Library, is located on the Seine River in the southeast of Paris, which is just one of the seven sites of the French National Library. This super library, built in 1997 by former French President Mitterrand, covers an area of 7.8 hectares with a total area of 350,000 square meters. It is mainly composed of four buildings with tempered glass structure, reaching into the sky and standing like an open book. These four buildings are connected by a wooden floor square the size of eight football fields. In the middle is a lush forest, and around this dense forest is its two-story reading room, two of which are as big as two football fields. The cost of this library is 8 billion francs (equivalent to more than 654.38 billion yuan), and its scale far exceeds that of any national library in the world. According to the staff, the operating expenses of this library exceed 65.438+0.2 billion francs per year, accounting for one tenth of the French cultural budget. This year's funds are almost equivalent to the annual budget of an African country. So some people call it the giant of the library. However, the charm of the French National Library lies not only in its grandeur and cost, but also in its architectural art, high-tech application, automation and digitalization, especially its philosophical connotation and cultural taste.