Dear Customers,
The bookstore will be closed for our annual inventory on Monday 30 and Tuesday 31 January.
As a result, orders placed online between the 28th and the 31st will be slightly delayed.
If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]
Thank you for your understanding ❤
Chers clients,
La librairie sera fermée pour notre inventaire annuel les lundi 30 et mardi 31 janvier.
En conséquence, toutes les commandes passées en ligne entre le 28 et le 31 seront retardées.
Si vous avez des questions, n'hésitez pas à nous écrire sur [email protected]
Merci pour votre compréhension ❤

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is a nonprofit—created in response to the pandemic and its financial consequences—to support the bookshop’s noncommercial activities, including our free author events, first-floor library, weekly podcast, and writers’ rooms, with views on Notre-Dame, where more than 30,000 poets and authors have stayed the night gratis in Paris since 1951.
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“I created this bookstore like a man would write a novel, building each room like a chapter, and I like people to open the door the way they open a book, a book that leads into a magic world in their imaginations.”
— George Whitman