Table Tuesday

 

A hidden table.

Timeless bookshop

 

Celebrated English-language librarie with coffee shop and views of Notre Dame Cathedral, at night. 

 

Shakespeare and Company 

37 rue de la Bûcherie 75005

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 Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass, that every braggart shall be found an ass. All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare   

Tower Tuesday

 

A suspended Eiffel Tower twinkles in a right bank bookstore.

 

 

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

Bookstore blues

Passing a small Montmartre librairie I was struck by the lineup of morose suggested book titles.

Books and more

The Musée d'Art Naïf at Halle Saint-Pierre always has something unusual, and usually wonderful, going on.

Halle Saint-Pierre

- bookstore / coffee shop / museum -

2 rue Ronsard 75018

Bookstore and bicycle

A bicycle in front of a librairie on the Left Bank.

Book space

  A librairie beneath Sacré Coeur that's also a café, gallery and museum of the avant-garde.

Halle Saint-Pierre 

2 rue Ronsard 75018

Buchladen

A German language bookstore on a Montmartre side street.

Bookshop

A librairie on a Left Bank back street loaded with books from floor to ceiling.

On the fence

Posters at l'Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés advertise an art bookstore and gallery nearby.

Victor is watching

A bust of Victor Hugo keeps an eye on this unusual family run bookshop.