The bookstore, an essential French story
Audio 29:00
A bookstore in Paris during the reconfinement, November 2, 2020. AFP / Stéphane de Sakutin
By: Pascal Paradou
30 mins
Two days before the Fête de la Librairie and at a time when bookstores are recognized as “essential businesses”, a retrospective with author Patricia Sorel on the history of these shops.
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In her book
Petite histoire de la librairie en France,
this historian traces with originality and vitality the genesis of these familiar establishments.
Guest: Patricia Sorel,
author of
Petite histoire de la librairie en France
published by
La Fabrique
editions
,
lecturer authorized to supervise research at the University of Paris-Nanterre and member of the Center for Cultural History of Contemporary Societies.
Micro-sidewalk: Baptiste Perrin at the bookstore of ....
And also the intervention of
Maryline Noel
, owner of
Le Comptoir,
a French-speaking bookstore established for thirty years in Santiago, Chile.
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