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Connaissez-vous Paris?
On the avenue Franklin Roosevelt, not far from the Champs-Elysées, is an unusual bookshop. The name, Livre Sterling, is a peculiarly anglophile pun on the fact that the word “livre” in French can mean either “pound” (₤) or “book” and … Continue reading
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Tagged avenue Franklin Roosevelt, Claude Debussy, Connaissez-vous Paris?, Emmanuel Delhomme, Exercises in Style, Félix de Rochegude, Henri IV, Jacques Hillairet, L’Intransigeant, Les Enfants Rouges, Livre Sterling, Père Lachaise, Raymond Queneau, Saint-Louis Hospital, Un libraire en colère, Zazie dans le Métro
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