Showing posts with label bookshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bookshop. Show all posts

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.