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Apr 29, 2025 22 min

The Nights The Books Needed Saving

from What keeps you up at night? Hosted by Sciences Po

On January 12 2014, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France faced an unprecedented water issue: The pipes broke. Three levels were infiltrated by 25m³ of water. The crisis management unit activated the emergency plan, on a Sunday night, to evacuate 38 000 documents, some dating back to early centuries. We'll travel back to that night — and another nightmarish night of such scale — wading back through the emergency response with Céline Allain, BnF’s emergency plan coordinator. Our guests: - Céline Allain, BNF Emergency Plan coordinator since 2013 - Sergent Laurent Da Silva, BNF firefighter - Maëlle Jeanty, Natural Risks project manager at the CEPRI, the European Centre for the Prevention of Flood Risks - Jacky Petit, plumber in Paris This episode is produced by Nancy-Wang Musisá, Piera Rocco, Mihail Ivanov and Lola López Lungo. The editor in chief is Lorraine Besse. #upatnight is #ScPodcast based on an original idea by Alice Antheaume. Music : Théo Boulenger Illustration : Marine Coutroutsios. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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