The Établi des mots team is all set before the opening of the bookstore scheduled for Saturday.

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J. Gicquel / 20 Minutes

  • In Rennes, the bookshop The established words opens its doors Saturday in the priority district of Blosne.

  • About a hundred members took part in this cooperative project.

  • Just like booksellers, they will be able to share their favorites and participate in the activity of the place.

With about fifteen independent bookstores, Rennes is rather well supplied in the book section.

On the other hand, all this offer is concentrated in the city center, leaving the inhabitants of the neighborhoods a little hungry.

But things are moving.

This Saturday, the bookshop The established words will open its doors in the priority district of Blosne.

The business should originally have taken place in the Le Quadri building.

But the coronavirus crisis slowed down its construction, forcing the teams of the bookstore to repatriate temporarily to the premises of P'tit Blosneur, the neighborhood concierge located at the Sainte-Elisabeth shopping center.

"The move will take place in April," specifies Gabriel Leroy, one of the booksellers.

About a hundred members in the project

With 1,300 books currently on the shelves, and 6,500 planned for the spring, the bookstore aims to be generalist, with a penchant for literature, comics, practical guides, children's literature and the human and social sciences.

The originality of the project lies above all in its organization since the bookstore operates as a cooperative, something quite rare in the community.

About a hundred natural or legal persons took part in the project.

Among them, "a lot of people from the neighborhood," welcomes Nadège Lucas, one of the three booksellers.

Each of them owning a share of the bookstore's capital, these members will also have a say in the matter.

“They will be fully involved in the activity of the place, underlines Gabriel Leroy.

Everyone can lend a hand, offer books, share their favorites or organize meetings ”.

Meet the inhabitants of the neighborhood

The young bookseller sees this atypical structure as a way of "involving the inhabitants in a cultural and economic project" while participating in the dynamics of the neighborhood.

“We also make it our mission to find a more masculine and younger audience who do not necessarily go to bookstores,” said Nadège Lucas.

To do this, the Etabli des mots team has planned to make itself visible in the neighborhood by getting out of its walls as much as possible.

"We will be present at the market and at the various events that will be organized", specifies Gabriel Leroy, already impatient to share his taste for books.

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