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#1 I had a love of books as a child. I would spend hours leafing through a book, and I would spend my spare time browsing the bouquinistes' old, damp cases of books. When I returned to Paris after the first war, everything had been taken away.
#2 I began to see the importance of a book's reader. I would place the book I thought was appropriate down close to a reader,...
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In 1921, Françoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Françoise's...
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