As @Javocity has revived this thread - can I ask if anybody knows the brilliant secondhand bookshop down a fairly obscure little street not far from Shakespeare & Co - sort of behind it, going away from the river?
(Yes I know this is ridiculously vague - I wasnât really paying attention when I wandered into the shop, spent far too much time there, and then had to rush away. I was definitely not drunk. Honest.)
The Abbey Bookshop? Rue de la Parchemerie.
Possibly The Red Wheelbarrow?
Yes - that was it Jane - many thanks!
@Rachman and @cmartin - great links too. I immediately spotted the allusion to William Carlos Williams!
I now need a day in Paris just for bookshop-browsingâŠ
My all time favourite bookstore in Paris.
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Yes it is iconic Bettina - no other shop - anywhere, I believe - has its historic links with great writers, although the most important (Joyce, Pound, Fitzgerald, Hemingway) frequented the original shop, not the current re-imagining. As to whether itâs the best thoughâŠ?
I love its founderâs description of it: âa socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstoreâ - a bit like the well-known description of Permaculture: ârevolution disguised as organic gardeningâ!
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Weâre off tomorrow! With an empty bag.
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The Paris Night Market at CitĂ© Fertile behind La Grande Halle is recommended in todayâs Guardian (not for books, though).
I like Galignani as well, under the arcades rue de Rivoli, but it isnât specifically for books in English.
If you are ever in Bordeaux go to Mollat!
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Well the original store is right next⊠I used to stay around the corner in a dependance of Hotel Esmeralda when ever I spent the weekend in Paris (not a great hotel - but great location).
After a grand creme & croissant I would often stop by Shakespeare to check English publications - cheaper and earlier than the offers in Germany.
Since Covid they also do mail order - great if you know which books you want, but I always loved the âdustyâ bohemian old Shakespeare shopâŠ
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Thank you, @Geof_Cox. Very interesting ⊠I am neither a Twitter user or a Mastodon user. I must say that I much prefer face-to-face communication. However, forums such as this one are good when we are geographically separated by large distances such as we are.
Mastodon sounds vaguely indecent to me.
Breast-shaped tooth.
Extinct relative of elephants.
With breast-shaped teeth, which is what the word means 
Itâs a mastodonte in French.
Bumps on the fossil teeth are what gave some French 18thC scientist (Cuvier?) the idea of giving the beast that name.
I checked, it was Cuvier and heâs 18th AND 19thC
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Why name a twitter lookalike after an extinct animal?
I donât know the answer on the name Rachman - but Mastodon is not really a lookalike - its much better than Twitter. There are many aspects to this, but for me the big thing - and the reason I never really used Twitter even before Musk took it over and I closed my account - is that the Mastodon character limit is 5,000 - enough to really say something, not just shout a soundbite.
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