Michelle Huchet-Nordmann, bookseller
She has been running her shop for a very long time and "
doesn't count
" her years spent in front of the Mazarine library. Michelle is a real enthusiast, as we no longer do. Having become a bookseller by chance after an experience as a bookseller and within various publishing houses, Michelle will not reveal her age. It has never worked with mass tourism, "
those who hang padlocks on the footbridge and buy books for 3 euros
", but sells collector's books, first editions, old engravings, 18th century maps and very precious illustrations… “
Twenty years ago, New York decorators, refined tourists and bibliophiles who were looking for rare things
” came to her.
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Now “
the population has changed.
Paris has changed
” and Michelle is saddened by this new reality.
“
Currently, with telework, people go out less
”, curiosities are running out and the bookseller has lost some of her clientele.
Despite the look...
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