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Shopping : Books

Bouquinistes : the famous booksellers are as much part of Paris as are the Eiffel Tower and the Moulin Rouge. What utter delight to go for a stroll along the Seine embankment and browse through literary heaven!

On the Left Bank: Quai Malaquais, Quai Conti, Quai de Montebelle; Quai de la Tournelle.

On the Right Bank: Quai du Louvre, Quai de la Mégisserie, Quai de Gesvres, Quai de l’Hôtel de Ville.

Bookshops: Paris, being a city of writers and poets from the whole world, is an eldorado for any book lover. Many bookshops are located in the university neighbourhoods, such as the Quartier Latin and Saint-Germain. Close to the Pompidou Centre, Paris’s gigantic cultural temple, you will also find quite a few bookshops selling books, posters and fine art prints.

The art bookshops around the Louvre present the perfect counterpart to the modern art bookshops of the Pompidou Centre district.

An unusual bookshop surely is the English shop that had Ernest Hemingway as a customer. It has become more of a tourist attraction than anything else:

Shakespeare & Company
Rue de la Bûcherie 35 (5)
Underground: Saint-Michel

At Les Halles and along Montparnasse, bastions of the modern consumer, the window-shopper is bound to find the perfect place for lovers of the written word. Cartoon albums, all kinds of stationery, compact discs, records, photographic techniques, cassettes, posters, etc. etc.

FNAC Forum Les Halles (1)
Second basement
Underground: Les Halles

FNAC Montparnasse (6)
Rue de Rennes 136
Underground: Rennes, Saint-Placide

FNAC Champs-Elysées
Avenue des Champs-Elysées 74 (8)
Underground: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Open daily till 12pm

Other large bookshops, some of which display an impressive array of international literature:

Brentano’s
Av. de l’Opéra 37 (2)
Underground: Pyramides

Delamain
Rue Saint-Honoré 155 (1)
Underground: Tuileries

La Hune
Bd. Saint-Germain 170 (6)
Underground: Saint-Germain-des-Prés

University Bookshop Gibert
Bd. Saint-Michel 28 (5)
Underground: Saint-Michel

Boekenmarkt
Rue Brancion/Park Georges Brassens (15)
Underground: Convention
Saturday/Sunday 8am-7pm
Tweedehandsboeken, waaronder kostbare oude exemplaren.

 

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