MARGOWSKI, Alexis. Paris est un livre.

It’s a stroll, a splendid book. It’s an ode to booksellers, a tribute to Paris. It’s a total declaration of love for books and all the possibilities they contain.

The Parisian book ecosystem is unique. This is the thread Alexis Margowski has chosen to weave through the city’s “extravagant bibliodiversity” in text and images.

With its 626 bookshops of all kinds – 27 of which are one hundred years old or more – the 230 secondhand booksellers who have surrounded Notre-Dame for over 450 years, the statues of writers, the memorial plaques, the literary hotels and cafés, the libraries, the poetry clubs… Paris seems to be the book capital of the world! As you turn the pages, you’ll follow the author on a delightful tour of this incredible literary heritage.