A customer walks through the door, before taking a quick look around the store.
“Hello, do you make condolence cards,” she asks.
“Not yet, but we should receive them next week,” replies Amélie Marcaille, the brand new manager of the place.
A little later in the morning, a retiree will ask if she has a reprography service.
“For photographs, I have what it takes,” she retorts.
Behind his counter, stocks of rent receipts, booklets of tickets for fairs or lotteries or rental contracts for furnished accommodation.
“I get asked a whole bunch of things that I hadn't thought of, I adapt as I go.
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It's been a little over a month since she opened this independent bookstore, in the town of Grandvilliers, a little less than 3,000 inhabitants about thirty kilometers north of Beauvais.
“The premises had been vacant for a long time, it was a pizzeria, which closed during Covid,” relates this 43-year-old woman.
But at that time, she didn't yet feel ready to take the plunge.
“And then I was an employee at the press house in Beauvais, I started at 19 on a work-study basis.
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“It made me realize that life was little and that I had to stop wasting time,” she confides.
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