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Historian Gilles Pécout, French ambassador to Austria since 2020, was appointed president of the National Library of France on Wednesday in the Council of Ministers. Specialist in 19th century Italy, former rector of the Paris Academy and former chancellor of the Universities of Paris, he succeeds Laurence Engel, president since 2016, who announced Friday in an email to his teams that she would leave the institution on April 6 after the non-renewal of his mandate by the Élysée.
After heading the history department of the École normale supérieure, Gilles Pécout became rector, at Nancy-Metz in 2014, then in Paris in 2016. President Emmanuel Macron then appointed him ambassador to Austria in 2020. One of its priorities was to develop educational cooperation with this country. He arrived at the BNF preceded by a reputation as a demanding manager, a necessary skill at the head of an establishment which has little developed its own resources.
In November, the CGT revealed that expenditure in 2023 would exceed allocated credits by 11 million euros, with the main factor being the rise in the cost of energy. This union denounces salary austerity. The BNF is facing difficult years for its budget, having to finance nearly 100 million euros for the construction of a new site intended to accommodate its collections of newspapers and periodicals. The National Press Conservatory is due to open at the end of 2029 in Amiens, hometown of the President of the Republic. The BNF, heir to the library of the kings of France, is one of the best-endowed institutions in the world with cultural riches from all eras and all regions of the globe.
