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<p>[QUOTE="Tom Mackay, post: 440855, member: 4589"]I had to look that up !</p><p>From wikipedia -</p><p>"The <b>Bouquinistes</b> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_France" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_France" rel="nofollow">Paris, France</a>, are booksellers of used and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquarian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquarian" rel="nofollow">antiquarian</a> books who ply their trade along large sections of the banks of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seine" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seine" rel="nofollow">Seine</a>: on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rive_Droite" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rive_Droite" rel="nofollow">right bank</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_Marie" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_Marie" rel="nofollow">Pont Marie</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quai_du_Louvre" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quai_du_Louvre" rel="nofollow">Quai du Louvre</a>, and on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rive_Gauche" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rive_Gauche" rel="nofollow">left bank</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quai_de_la_Tournelle&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quai_de_la_Tournelle&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Quai de la Tournelle</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quai_Voltaire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quai_Voltaire" rel="nofollow">Quai Voltaire</a>. The Seine is thus described as 'the only river in the world that runs between two bookshelves'.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouquinistes#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouquinistes#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]"</a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Contents</b></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Mackay, post: 440855, member: 4589"]I had to look that up ! From wikipedia - "The [B]Bouquinistes[/B] of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_France']Paris, France[/URL], are booksellers of used and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquarian']antiquarian[/URL] books who ply their trade along large sections of the banks of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seine']Seine[/URL]: on the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rive_Droite']right bank[/URL] from the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_Marie']Pont Marie[/URL] to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quai_du_Louvre']Quai du Louvre[/URL], and on the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rive_Gauche']left bank[/URL] from the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quai_de_la_Tournelle&action=edit&redlink=1']Quai de la Tournelle[/URL] to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quai_Voltaire']Quai Voltaire[/URL]. The Seine is thus described as 'the only river in the world that runs between two bookshelves'.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouquinistes#cite_note-1'][1]"[/URL] [SIZE=5][B]Contents[/B][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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