# Paris | Places to Wander

Canonical: https://artist.fyi/places/paris/
Publisher: The Corporate Artist (artist.fyi)
Issue: Places to Wander, Issue 001. Published 2026-09-13.

Three independent bookshops worth finding in person.

If you're looking for the best independent bookshops in Paris, Places to Wander's edited guide includes Shakespeare and Company in Latin Quarter, Galignani in Rue de Rivoli and Artazart in Canal Saint-Martin. Explore the selected shops below, with neighborhood context, drawings and links to each shop's own website. The guide is edited, not numerically ranked.

## Selected bookshops

### Shakespeare and Company

George Whitman opened it in 1951 in a seventeenth-century monastery building, and since then some thirty thousand Tumbleweeds have slept among the shelves on the condition that they read a book a day. Sylvia Whitman has run it since 2006.

- Neighborhood: Latin Quarter
- Specialty: English-language literature · Poetry · Essays
- Address: 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris, France
- Official site: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/
- Entry: https://artist.fyi/places/paris/#shakespeare
- Illustration: https://artist.fyi/places/assets/shakespeare__marker__2026-09-12__v21.webp
- Founded: 1951

The name may already be on your list Let the shelves have the last word Shakespeare and Company’s rue de la Bûcherie shop is devoted to English-language books

Let the shelves have the last word. Give a writer you have never read a few pages to make their case.

### Galignani
- Neighborhood: Rue de Rivoli
- Specialty: Fine arts · English and French literature
- Address: 224 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France
- Official site: https://www.galignani.fr/
- Entry: https://artist.fyi/places/paris/#galignani
- Illustration: https://artist.fyi/places/assets/galignani__marker__2026-09-13__v22.webp
- Worth a special trip for: A long room on rue de Rivoli where English and French books meet fine arts publishing.

The long room asks you to slow down Galignani brings English and French books together with fine arts publishing on rue de Rivoli An art book makes a good interruption to a week spent reading for information

An art book makes a good interruption to a week spent reading for information. Look at how someone else sees.

### Artazart

Opened in July 2000 on the Canal Saint-Martin, open 363 days a year, and keeps a line by Miss.Tic close: Créer, c’est résister.

- Neighborhood: Canal Saint-Martin
- Specialty: Design · Photography · Illustration
- Address: 83 quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris, France
- Official site: https://artazart.com/infos-pratiques/
- Entry: https://artist.fyi/places/paris/#artazart
- Illustration: https://artist.fyi/places/assets/artazart__marker__2026-09-13__v22.webp
- The Detour: this issue's editorial detour
- Founded: 2000

For a different kind of reading, follow the canal. Artazart’s design and photography books reward the eye as much as the sentence. Our detour is an invitation to study a composition, a typeface or an image before deciding what it might be useful for.

## Questions readers ask

### What are some of the best independent bookshops in Paris?
Places to Wander's edited selection includes Shakespeare and Company, Galignani and Artazart. The guide is not numerically ranked. Each entry explains why the shop is included and links to the shop's own website.

### What is The Detour in the Paris issue?
Artazart in Canal Saint-Martin. Opened in July 2000 on the Canal Saint-Martin, open 363 days a year, and keeps a line by Miss.Tic close: Créer, c’est résister. The Detour is an editorial designation, not a ranking.

### Which featured bookshops specialize in art and design books?
Galignani in Rue de Rivoli and Artazart in Canal Saint-Martin. Follow each shop's official link for its current selection.

### Is there a map of the featured bookshops?
Yes. The Paris issue includes a map and shop index. Select a shop to open its entry, then use the shop's official link for visiting details. The illustrated map is an orientation aid, not a turn-by-turn route.

## About this guide

Places to Wander is an editorial field guide from The Corporate Artist to independent bookstores and bookshops worth finding in person.

We look for independent shops with a point of view: exceptional selection, a meaningful specialty, a room worth experiencing, a role in its neighborhood, or the possibility of finding something you did not arrive looking for. The guides are edited, not numerically ranked. A bookstore does not have to stock The Corporate Artist to be included.

A field guide from Morgan Sage Norman, author of The Corporate Artist, a book about creativity at work.

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