 Several donations were then made, including a legacy of 3,000 works by in 1844 (with twenty-six incunabula and a 9th-century manuscript "De bello iudaico" [The Jewish War] of Flavius Josephus, which remains the oldest document in the library) and a gift in 1877 from Jérôme-Frédéric Bignon, Mayor of Le Rozel and heir to the king's librarians.It also has a Norman fonds, an old fonds devoted to botany and another to travel.Housed in a wing of the City Hall in 1855, and then at 9 "Rue Thiers" ("Rue Talluau") from 1896, the library moved into the cultural centre in June 1981, taking the name of Jacques Prévert, who had died four years earlier in La Hague.