'Hell' is in the national library, Paris

Elianne Ros recommends a visit to a Parisian exhibition forbidden to visitors under 16 years of age, which has just opened at the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, a national library. "The Pierre Larousse 20th century Grand Dictionnaire Universel defines hell as 'a closed part of a library where books considered dangerous are kept'. This definition is the starting point of the exhibition entitled 'Hell at the Library, Eros in Secret' which is, for the first time ever, unveiling five centuries of literary and graphic documentation that had been kept under lock and key in France's National Library. This collection oscillates between eroticism and pornography. ...Through 350 works, the exhibition proposes a double itinerary: on one hand the contents of 'hell', i.e. documents, books and images gathered under that term. And on the other, the actual history of 'hell' since its creation."

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