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    Las bibliotecas españolas según algunos viajeros franceses del siglo XVIII
    (2018-01-18) Aguilá-Solana, Irene
    In their travel tales, Labat, Silhouette, Peyron and Bourgoing include nu- merous reections they made while staying in Spain. The former two visited the country briey, whereas the latter two enjoyed a long stay. Yet that difference did not prevent any of them from noticing some Spanish libraries, which they perceived as a sign of erudition and as a desire for cultural dissemination. Whether public or private, con- ventual or secular, those libraries awoke the interest of the aforementioned French eighteenth-century travellers for various reasons, such as the identity of their owners, the characteristics of their book collections, their location, their ornamentation or the opening hours of those libraries.