L’organisation de la lecture dans les Principautés Roumaines: les cabinets de lecture (première moitié du XIXe siècle)
Organization of Reading within the Romanian Principalities: Reading Rooms (First Half of the XIXth Century)

Summary/Abstract: The efforts to organize the public reading through private initiative generated in Romanian Principalities the emergence of reading rooms. The most important of them were operating beside bookstores, being an expansion of the trade business with books developed by those who employed their entrepreneurial skills in this area. In the first half of the nineteenth century the reading room contributed to the development of culture by promoting the reading and circulation of (especially French) books and ideas. The appearance and development of various reading venues such as cabinets, lounges, societies, etc, serve both the cultural and political mission of that generation: national emancipation through culture in the Romanian Principalities.

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