The iconic booksellers of Paris

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hello!

After a listener emailed in wanting more information about the iconic "bouquinistes" of Paris, I decided to go and find out more.

I stumbled upon Sydney Zekley, who hails from Los Angeles, but spends her days selling books along the Seine River.

Here is our chat, plus a lot more about the bouquinistes of Paris.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. You're listening to the Airtleau podcast. My name is Oliver G. This is a show all about sort of figuring out Paris, figuring out France, and I've been doing it for about two years. So if you're new to the game, you've been missing out on a lot of stuff. I must say, this show is brought to you by French Today. French Today, these guys do audiobooks. It's all about learning French. There's a whole method involved.
0:22.2	It's not just sentences translating and then repeating them out loud.
0:27.0	There's a whole, I don't know, there's a whole method to it.
0:29.5	And if you've been listening to this show before, you'd understand that.
0:32.0	And I'd encourage you all to check out the 10% discount that you get if you book using this very website,
0:39.1	Frenchtoday.com forward slash earful 7.
0:43.1	You got it?
0:43.7	That will take a further 10% off everything you buy.
0:46.6	But more about them at the end of the episode.
0:49.4	What I want to talk about now is something quite interesting.
0:52.4	We're about to make Earful Tower history.
0:54.1	And that is because
0:55.1	I'm going to read to you an email that I've already read out before. I got it fairly recently.
1:00.1	Let's see, I got it from Meg. Hi, Oliver. I've been listening to the podcast while walking my dog.
1:04.5	I love that. I love when you guys tell me where and how you listen to the podcast always makes my day. But I'm skipping ahead of it. I'm currently reading a book by Mark Pryor, the bookseller, which is set in Paris.
1:14.2	It's about a Bukinist who is abducted.
1:16.7	I googled Bukinist, as I hadn't heard of them,
1:19.0	and the old black and white photos of them got me interested to read more about them.
1:22.9	Maybe it would be a good topic for your podcast. And would you believe it, within about a week of getting that email, I thought, that is such a good idea for an episode that I'm just going to do it.
1:33.2	So I'm going to tell you the story about how this came about, the interview going to walk up to the first bookiness the first
1:45.7	bookseller that I see and ask them if they speak English but first well if you heard that
1:50.9	clicking sound that was me turning on the fan because it's so hot in Paris that I I'm sweating in
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