With passing trade hit hard by the pandemic, the booksellers on the banks of the Seine are struggling Coronavirus - latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Usually, Sundays are good days for the bouquinistes. Legions of strollers - tourists, out-of-towners, Parisians - throng the banks of the Seine, and the open-air booksellers whose green boxes have lined the quays for 400-odd years do good business. One recent Sunday, though, Jérôme Callais made €32. And there was a day that week w...
Through gilets jaunes, strikes and Covid, Paris's 400-year-old book stalls fight to survive
The Guardian - 29 Dec 2020 07:15
With passing trade hit hard by the pandemic, the booksellers on the banks of the Seine are struggling Coronavirus - latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Usually, Sundays are good days for the bouquinistes. Legions of strollers - tourists, out-of-towners, Parisians - throng the banks of the Seine, and the open-air booksellers whose green boxes have lined the quays for 400-odd years do good business. One recent Sunday, though, Jérôme Callais made €32. And there was a day that week w...
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