The planned demise of the Gibert flagship shop in the Place Saint-Michel, as well as others nearby, follows the loss of the Boulinier shop last year. On the Left Bank of the Seine, Paris’s Latin quarter houses the Sorbonne. The Latin Quarter, the centre of a 1968 student revolt, remains a major university hub, although fewer than 10,000 students are now said to live there. Smallest buck the trendAs France’s first independent bookseller, the Gibert group’s flagship shop has been in the Place Saint-Michel for as long as anyone can remember. It will keep its six-floor shop next to the Sorbonne but rules out any new opening in the Latin quarter.

Source: The Local March 07, 2021 13:15 UTC