Tag Archives: Livre Sterling

Going, going, gone

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Parisian Fields

In the 1850s, as the old Paris of narrow streets and ramshackle houses gave way to the broad boulevards and uniform apartment blocks planned by Napoleon III and carried out by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Charles Baudelaire wrote an epitaph for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Paris bookstores, Paris shops | Tagged Archives de la Presse, Artcurial, bouquinistes, Charles Baudelaire, Emmanuel Delhomme, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Librairie Charlemagne, Librairie Pierre Brunet, Livre Sterling, Mona Lisait, Napoleon III, Notre Dame de Paris, Red Wheelbarrow, Tea and Tattered Pages, Victor Hugo | 18 Comments

Connaissez-vous Paris?

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Parisian Fields

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 →