 In Paris in 1470, Martin Crantz, Michael Freyburger, and Ulrich Gering produced the first printed book in France, "Epistolae" (letters), by Gasparinus de Bergamo.In 1476 in Lyon appeared one of the first printed French-language books, "La Légende Dorée" (Golden Legend) by Jacobus da Varagine.The French royal library began at the Louvre Palace in 1368 during the reign of Charles V, opened to the public in 1692, and became the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1792.