The Emblem of Paris

The leading english language walking tour company in Paris. Founded in 1994

Daily Walking Tours in English led by a small team of professional guides with many years' experience

READING LIST

Our favourite Second Hand ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOKSHOP in Paris is :

Collector's items, first editions, literary treasures, classics, travel, history plus titles recommended by Paris Walks.

New Books

The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore - 9 and 11 rue de Médicis - 75006 -

Entrance opposite the Luxembourg Gardens

Any of these books will enhance your time in Paris, and are available from the above stores.
Our recommended books are listed by 'walks'

Latin Quarter and its writers :

George Orwell : Down and Out in Paris and London
Ernest Hemingway : A Moveable Feast, The Sun Also Rises, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Green Hills of Africa, A Farewell to Arms
James Joyce : Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake
Honoré de Balzac : Old Goriot (Père Goriot)
Gertrude Stein : An Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Paris France
Shaklespeare and Company - A Memoire by Sylvia Beach
Alice Toklas : Cook Book
Eliot Paul : A Narrow Street (about rue de la Huchette in the 1920s)
Katherine Mansfield : Je ne Parle pas Français (Short story in English)
Jean Rhys : Quartet, Good Morning Midnight, After Leaving Mr McKenzie, about Paris in the 1920s : The Wide Sargasso Sea (Story of Mr Rochester's wife in "Jane Eyre")
W. Somerset Maugham : The Moon and Sixpence (loosely based on the story of Gauguin), The Razor's Edge
F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the Night
Henry Miller : Tropic of Cancer (Banned for its sexual frankness!)
André Gide : The Vatican Cellars
Simone de Beauvoir : She Came to Stay (L'Invitée)
Film : Camille Claudel (She was a talented sculptor and Rodin's mistress, her works can be seen at the Rodin Museum)

Montmartre :

The Marais and Versailles :

Paris during the Occupation :

Joseph Joffo : A Bag of Marbles (Jewish child's view of the Occupation in France)
Helene Berr : Journal (Parisian who recorded life before perishing in a concentration camp)
Dominique Lapierre / Larry Collins : Is Paris Burning
Ian Ousby : Occupation. The Ordeal of France

The Red Wheelbarrow
This much loved bookshop has re-opened and is located at n° 9 rue de Medicis

Moulin Rouge 1900

Notre Dame

'Ex Libris' from Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and C° Bookstore 12 rue de l'Odéon

Recommended Reading PARIS WALKS

Our favourite Second Hand ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOKSHOP in Paris is :

Collector's items, first editions, literary treasures, classics, travel, history plus titles recommended by Paris Walks.

New Books

The Red Wheelbarrow - 9 and 11 rue de Médicis

Reading any of these titles will enhance your stay in Paris!

All titles available new from 'The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore' rue de Medicis, or Second hand hand from San Francisco Books, rue Monsieur le Prince

Latin Quarter and its writers :

George Orwell : Down and Out in Paris and London
Ernest Hemingway : A Moveable Feast, The Sun Also Rises, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Green Hills of Africa, A Farewell to Arms
James Joyce : Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake
Honoré de Balzac : Old Goriot (Père Goriot)
Gertrude Stein : An Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Paris France
Shakespeare and company - A memoire by Sylvia Beach
Alice Toklas : Cook Book
Eliot Paul : A Narrow Street (about rue de la Huchette in the 1920s)
Katherine Mansfield : Je ne Parle pas Français (Short story in English)
Jean Rhys : Quartet, Good Morning Midnight, After Leaving Mr McKenzie, about Paris in the 1920s : The Wide Sargasso Sea (Story of Mr Rochester's wife in "Jane Eyre")
W. Somerset Maugham : The Moon and Sixpence (loosely based on the story of Gauguin), The Razor's Edge
F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the Night
Henry Miller : Tropic of Cancer (Banned for its sexual frankness!)
André Gide : The Vatican Cellars
Simone de Beauvoir : She Came to Stay (L'Invitée)
Film : Camille Claudel (She was a talented sculptor and Rodin's mistress, her works can be seen at the Rodin Museum)

Montmartre :

The Marais and Versailles :

Paris during the Occupation :

Joseph Joffo : A Bag of Marbles (Jewish child's view of the Occupation in France)
Helene Berr : Journal (Parisian who recorded life before perishing in a concentration camp)
Dominique Lapierre / Larry Collins : Is Paris Burning
Ian Ousby : Occupation. The Ordeal of France

Ex Libris from Sylvia Beach's original Shakespeare and Company
Bookstore, 12 rue de l'Odéon

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