Bookshops, CDs, photographic and computer equipment

Les bouquinistes de Paris

Bords de Seine - du Pont Marie au quai Voltaire - 75004 Paris

Notre-Dame - Île Saint-Louis - 4e Arrondissement

Bouquinistes, Paris © OTCP - David Lefranc

Bouquinistes, Paris © OTCP - Fabian Charaffi

Bouquiniste, Paris © OTCP - Raymon Mesnildrey

Description

Les Bouquinistes, riverside booksellers, are an enormous ‘open-air bookshop’ that is a part of the Parisian landscape, adding to the charm of the Seine riverbanks. They provide a lively atmosphere, cultural attraction, and literary and historic heritage. Located on the Right Bank, from Pont Marie to Quai du Louvre, and on the Left Bank, from Quai de la Tournelle to Quai Voltaire, some 226 riverside booksellers with their 900 'book boxes' have 300,000 or so old and modern literary works to discover – a veritable treasure.