Window Wednesday

 

 

Natural light floods the bookshop inside Halle Saint-Pierre, a former market.

Window Wednesday

 

Visually rich, high quality editions of coffee table books:  art, architecture, design, photography, pop culture.

 

Taschen

2 rue de Buci 75006

Victory Day

 

Hello kitty.

At iconic English language bookstore Shakespeare and Company.

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Today is La Fête de la Victoire in France, a national holiday commemorating the end of WWII in Europe and a day off for schools and businesses. There will be solemn ceremonies, parades and wreath-laying at war memorials with a key event in Paris where the French President leads a military parade along the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe and lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The French tricolor flag will be prominently displayed alongside other European flags to symbolize post-war peace and unity. - BPJ

 

Point of view

 

Ground floor from above at the most visited book shop in Paris.

 Shakespeare and Company

 37 rue de la Bûcherie 75005

 

Booking

 

View from the doorstep of a favorite librairie in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Taschen 

2 rue de Buci 75006

 

 

Castle in a window

A Christmas tradition originating in Kraków, szopki are ornate castles that showcase Nativity scenes.    

 Above: a gleaming szopka takes up the entire window of a Polish bookshop on Boulevard Saint-Germain

Man dog books

A man and his dog pause before a small bookshop.

Buchladen

A German language bookstore on a Montmartre side street.

Shakespeare and more

Gathering place for English-speaking Paris with events, since 1919.

 

Shakespeare and Company
37 rue de la Bûcherie 75005