![](https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1920-circ-desk.jpg)
Circulation desk of the Library, circa 1920
10 May 1920![](https://americanlibraryinparis.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/17311295304_ed93191600_z.jpg)
10, rue de l’Élysée
16 April 2017The periodical room is free for use by patrons and non-patrons alike, comprising a rich collection of over 100 American magazines and periodicals. A French journalist visiting on behalf of Le Figaro is especially amazed, noting, “Twelve consecutive hours of opening […] reading rooms open on Sunday afternoons […]. These ideas could only have come from American minds.”