Julien Cain
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title:
Julien Cain
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Julien Cain was the general administrator of the Bibliothèque nationale de France before the Occupation of France by Nazi Germany. In August 1937, Cain was one of the hosts of the first World Congress of Universal Documentation, held in Paris, which met to further the goal of creating a World Brain, an idea championed by H. G. Wells, and seen by some as one of the precursors to Wikipedia. In the summer of 1939, before the occupation began, he saw the impending danger clearly enough to order the
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French librarian
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Cain
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2023-05-05T06:55:34Z
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