The BnF is offering the first major exhibition devoted to the apocalypse. The apocalypse? An obscure word, which frightens, a word which speaks of the end of the world. It has never ceased to resonate for two thousand years in our culture and our Western societies when a major catastrophe occurs, and still today, in the background of our climatic anxieties. And yet… This word means revelation, unveiling. In its biblical source, the Apocalypse speaks of a veil lifting on the timeless kingdom which will reunite believers in the heavenly Jerusalem. A word carrying hope, made to thwart our deep fears?