In 1859, concessions were implemented by the city of Paris and the bouquinistes are permitted to be established at fixed points.

One can walk everywhere, browsing the bouquinistes along the South Bank, or over the bridge to Notre-Dame.

Along here too are the bouquinistes, those secondhand booksellers whose stock-in-trade was once the "feelthy" pictures now routinely purveyed in glossy magazines.

The French open-air markets held great appeal for Laura, as did the Left Bank bouquinistes where she often found appealing old prints among the musty volumes.

He also shoots the city tourists love: the banks of the Seine, the gargoyles of Notre-Dame, the stalls of the bouquinistes.

The Galerie des Bouquinistes, for example, in the Manufacture Royale, is a sprawling second-hand bookstore, perfect for leisure reading.

In Paris there is the long sweep of the Quais, where some eighty bouquinistes set their boxes on the walls of the embankment of the Seine.

Browse the bouquinistes that line the Left Bank, then on to the Musée d'Orsay, formerly a railway station, for its collection of French Impressionists.

Second-hand bookshops, commonly known as bouquinistes, line the quays of the Seine, especially between Pont St-Michel and Pont des Arts.

Now the bouquinistes deal mainly in old advertising posters, hackneyed prints of city views and arcane volumes like "The Young Hegel" and "The Secret of Napoleon."

It consists of two spans, straddling the Ile de la Cité, and was initially populated with street-singers, charlatans, prostitutes, pickpockets, and above all bouquinistes selling old books and pamphlets out of boxes.

On my first night I went around the corner to Les Bookinistes, whose name is a bastardized spelling of bouquinistes, the booksellers whose green stalls line the Seine and can be seen from the window of the restaurant.

Installed along more than three kilometres of the Seine and declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, the 240 bouquinistes make use of 900 "green boxes" to house some 300,000 old books and a very great number of journals, stamps and trading cards.