Overview
- The Bibliothèque nationale de France completed the acquisition of the Albert Camus fonds for €9 million with support from patrons CIC and Hermès and placed the material in its national collections.
- The collection comprises roughly 250 boxes, about 50 linear metres, containing original manuscripts of L’Étranger and Le Premier Homme plus essays, plays, journals and private correspondence with figures such as André Malraux and Simone de Beauvoir.
- The manuscript of Le Premier Homme, recovered from the car in which Camus died in 1960, is included among the papers now held by the BnF.
- The BnF announced an immediate opening of the fonds to researchers and a formal digitization and conservation program designed to broaden access to the material.
- A public exhibition of the Camus fonds is scheduled for March 2027 to mark the 70th anniversary of his 1957 Nobel Prize and to present the archives to a wider audience.