Prominent Paris BD Shop to Close

I apologize as my French pulled a major Vinko Bogataj trying to sort this out, but this article indicates that one of the more historically well-known Parisian BD shops may close at the end of September. This would be the shop on the corner of Rue St. Jacques and Boulevard St. Germain, which once went by the name "Librairie Dupuis" -- it does in this New York Times travel article -- and may go by a different name now. The original article also seems to give multiple dates all of which end in a three -- 1963, 1973 and 1983 -- so I'm not exactly sure of the store's background. If someone can help unpack this for me, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Xavier Guilbert Writes To Save Us All:

Here is a short summary of the article you refer to -- which, to reassure you on your mastery of French, is not very clear with some puzzling points.

The bookstore (under the name "Librairie Dupuis") exists at this location since 1963. It seems that it hosted quite a few major "dedicaces" with some major franco-belgian authors, among which Tillieux (pictured signing there in 1973), Franquin, Greg, Pratt, Peyo.

According to the article, the bookstore is on the brink of closing down because of an impending expulsion, following rough litigation with their landlord and the real estate manager who represents them. They are to clear the premices by September 30.

The fuzzy part regards the 1983 date -- they mention that "Glenat Editions created the bookstore" at this date but in another location, and that they operate the current store with the Album company. The relation to the rest of the article is not clear, and there is an asterix that indicate that it could be a footnote to some part of the text that didn't get reproduced there.

I suppose this has to do with legal stuff, and that they relocated at some point the store to this location, which used to be called (if memory serves) "Glenat - Librairie d'Images," and is now part of the Album network of comic-book related stores (US Comics accross the street, another franco-belgian BD shop around the corner, right by the manga store and accross the DVD store).

Thank you!

Thomas Ragon at Dargaud Pipes In to Say the Original Story's Wrong:

BD Zoom is wrong. The Comics bookshop being about to close is not the famous "Librairie Dupuis" at the corner of rue St-Jacques and boulevard St-Germain, but another "Album" shop in rue Lafayette, near by the Galeries Lafayette, in the Opera Garnier neighborhood. It's a really old shop as well (where I myself have been working for a year some ten years from now), and I guess the premises got too much a value in this very expensive area for the landlords not wanting to sell it...

It seems people at BD Zoom just read French as well as you do (sorry for you!), as the right address is clearly readable within the article!

Sorry for me indeed! I regret linking to the erroneous story, although it's worth noting any prominent BD shop being forced out of its premises so I'll leave the whole thing up so that you may all experience my Monday Morning bafflement. Thank you, readers!
 
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