Saturday, April 06, 2024

"Paris's beloved booksellers secure victory to stay put during this summer's Olympics"

Last night while sipping pints and eating delicious snacks (arancini, olives...) at E L Ruddy, designwallah and I reviewed the history of this site and made tentative plans to experiment with it a bit. Some of the general themes (not always captured with tags) were: photography (of various stripes); psychogeography; books; and all things parisienne (we travelled there twice during the blog's early days).

So, for today's experiment, here's something close to my bookish heart - Les bouquinistes. 

By Benh LIEU SONG (2007). A stand of a bouquiniste (french term for second-hand books resellers) , in Paris, near the Cathedral Notre-Dame of Paris. Bouquinistes can be considered a landmark of Paris. There are nearly 250 of them, mainly located in the central area of the city, alongside the banks of the Seine river.

©Benh LIEU SONG, 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.

Article on Lonely Planet about the averted crisis with some wonderful historical photographs.

History on Wikipedia.

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