International Rare Book & Fine Art Fair 2020 at the Grand Palais

From September 18 to 20, 2020, the Grand Palais houses the International Rare Book & Fine Art Fair. This unique fair exhibits once again extraordinary work collections and is getting bigger because of art items.

Since 1984 and the first International Rare Book & Fine Art Fair in Paris Conciergerie, booksellers from all over the world are used to come in Paris to display their exceptional documents of a great diversity. Today, it’s the finest event of its kind in France and one of the most significant in the world. It now brings together 194 exhibitors from all over the world so that they can share their expertise, their most precious written, graphic and artistic heritage in one of the most breathtaking setting in Paris, attractin 20,000 people in 3 days.

The Cinémathèque Française is the edition 2020's guest of honor. It invites us to experience the love of movies and comes to the show with rare and prestigious pieces giving a foretaste of the richness and eclectism of its collections. From Georges Méliès to Martin Scorcese, exceptional pieces are displayed so much that you will not know where to start.

• To be read
• Coronavirus: update on the situation in the world, 70 deaths in Italy and 134 in Italy and 377 in the UK in 24 hours
• Coronavirus: Paris and île-de-France, containment exit phase 2
• [LIVE] Edouard Philippe's address: the government's statements for June 2

Highlights of this edition 2020

• 194 exhibitors including 61 from 12 different countries
  
  
• Discover ancient book, a meeting stand between book connoisseurs and amateurs to ask every question you may have and learn everything that is to be learned about ancient books. Bookstore keepers will also be there to help you out an dguide you through your spree.
  
  
• Emile Zola's never-seen-before manuscript displayed by Le Manuscrit Français. "Pour la Lumière"... is an exclusive article written in July 1898 by Emile Zola, six months after "J'Accuse...!", amid the Dreyfus case. The five-page article has nevery been published but you can discover it for the show.
  
  
• Classes and workshops to learn how to bind and restore old books. Introductory workshops and lithography improvement on stone taught by plastic artist and lithographer Cora Texier.
  
  
• Introduction of the illustrated fine book by Les Cent Unes association. Les Cent Unes is the only association of female bibliophiles in the world. Every two years, they publich a book, an exclusive text illustrated by a contemporary artist.

You can also come with your own books and meet with the National Chamber of Experts to get them evaluated!