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Tell me, miss, do you know where the bookseller is?"
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“Oh!
you replace your husband today!”
: these are the kinds of questions that women booksellers on the banks of the Seine frequently hear.
However, today they represent more than a third of the 200 box holders.
And the last promotion had seven women for sixteen men.
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A sign that the profession is inexorably feminized, even if women have long since joined this corporation, like the Korb sisters, four-handed authors of the detective series Victor Legris (10/18), under the pen name of Claude Izner.
The tourists have returned
“We are passionate, we love books, literature, engraving, comics… we know our job, we all have our particularities. We exist”
, claims Camille Goudeau, a thirty-year-old bookseller, who cut his teeth as a “can opener” before becoming a holder in 2021. She drew a learning novel from it,
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