RIP

"We regret to inform our faithful customers that Brentano's bookstore is in liquidation since Friday June 12th 2009 and is no longer trading.
Thank you for your support over the years,
the Brentano's staff"

http://www.brentanos.fr/

In business since 1895, the Paris-based American bookshop and newsagent has closed its doors for good. A real institution in distributing US publications locally is now being liquidated after its surrender to ever increasing rental costs and constent refusal from the landlords to renew the lease. Sad to seem them going under, and let's cross fingers WH Smith's Paris branch won't know a similar fate

The shop as it shows today