Snapshot from Paris: A Bookstore on Every Block
Posted on May 12, 2009 | Field Trip | Leave A Comment
In my recent conversation with MFA Houston’s bookstore manager Bernard Bonnet, he mentioned that there is at least one bookstore per block in Paris. I thought he was exaggerating, but while I was in Paris last weekend I made a point of testing his claim on a morning walk from Place de la Concorde to Luxembourg Gardens.
In St. Germaine there are even more than that, and each shop has its own delightful and seductive window display. It reminds me of how much we lose when bookstores disappear: in service, in taste, and in imaginative connections that trigger that familiar desire to buy a good book, curl up in a chair by the window, or head for a café to lose yourself in the pages. Parisians are rich in many ways. –EM
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