A mysterious temple of images on the gates of the capital | EUROtoday

It’sis an establishment little identified to most people. An institution that the entire world envies! The Media Library of Heritage and Photography (MPP) is a kind of French homes whose affect extends far past the borders of our nation. This “nationally competent service”, as administrative legislation describes it considerably coldly, is in truth devoted to the conservation of a very powerful assortment of images in Europe. “And maybe even people,” smiles Gilles Désiré says Gosset, who has been operating it for ten years.

“To date, we house more than 25 million images,” says Matthieu Rivallin, head of the establishment’s “photography” division. This distinctive heritage isn’t preserved at its headquarters, situated in Charenton-le-Pont (Val-de-Marne) in a former cou…