We found this bookstore as we were strolling around Montmartre after lunch. The staff was…read moreincredibly helpful and we found just the books we were looking for for our daughters. They seem to have a wide range of books as well on various subjects. On a trouvé set librairie ent promenant le Montmartre après d'avoir mangé.Les personnes qui ont aidé été très gentil et ont a trouvé juste les livres q'on aves besoin. Ça a apparaît qu'ils avaient beaucoup de livres est beaucoup de sujets.

Very rude. Can't even look at what book you want to buy. Isn't that the whole point of a bookstore?…read moreMake sure you walk in knowing exactly what you want and don't touch anything or you'll be yelled at.

The rudest people I have ever met in my life. I was looking to buy a notebook and was told not to…read moretouch anything. When I simply tried to explain that I was looking to buy something and was just taking a look, the two people working there launched into a screaming fit, using antisemitic slurs I guess because I was wearing a chai necklace, never in my life have i seen anything like this. Avoid at all costs.

This is an excellent neighborhood bookstore...with mostly (if not all) French editions of classics…read moreand new books. They have stationary, pens, pencils, Rhodia pads, post cards and little trinkets...like you would find in any normal independent bookstore. Certainly worth checking out if you happen to be walking down rue Martyrs or Blvd de Rochechouart.

The best children's selection of any bookstore I've visited in France so far -- not the largest,…read morebut the most carefully selected and curated, which is important. Shopping for preteens, so it was nice to find a great assortment of classic English-language books en Français as well as many French children's books. I should clarify I was not looking for anything in English, so try the big Gibert-Joseph or WH Smith for English-language children's books. There were some lovely bande-desinées (aka graphic novels) and a nice selection of recent fiction and non-fiction. Not a large bookshop, but a lovingly curated one, and that's what matters most to me.

I love visiting bookstores while traveling, and Librairie Delamain was a good one, a lovely place…read morein the heart of tourist-facing Paris, on Rue St Honoré near the Louvre. I dropped in with my friends, one of whom wanted to buy French books for her children. I was just happy to browse. The store was attractive and welcoming, with a definite European bookstore charm. It was packed dense with books, on numerous display tables and climbing high on every wall. There was a cute dedicated room for children's books. I browsed the section of translated English language literature, and it was quite compact, a reminder that the world is large and not everyone cares what we Americans are doing at all times. (They did not carry my book, which has been translated into French. One of my friends very sweetly embarrassed me by asking. I found her with a polite lady who worked at the bookstore, the two of them looking at my face on a screen.) There were tons of cool coffee table books, which I enjoyed looking at in the absence of any French ability. I saw tons of art books, including one for the Rothko exhibition we were about to visit, and a great book about French drag. I was also amused by a Wes Anderson book tagged with a shelf talker that read, in French, "Perfect for fans of Wes Anderson!!" Anyway, I appreciated Librairie Delamain and would recommend it to anyone in search of books in this part of Paris. It's a beautiful store with a nice assortment of French books.

This is a wonderful bookstore that I visited during the last two years when I was in Paris. They…read morelisten to me patiently as I speak French and recommend books that I will enjoy reading and that are appropriate to my language level. I can't wait to visit them again when I return.

Great place :) Cloudy day and Paris and my boyfriend and I needed some hot tea to go with the…read morepastries we bought nearby. Found this Potemkine on Yelp and it's a truly unique place. It's a DVD and book store with a small cafe in the back. They also screen movies on some nights. Tea is really yummy and a good selection. Employees are very kind. So glad we stumbled upon this gem.

This cozy place does not even give the clue of having a café inside somewhere. The hidden but…read morepleasant back side is quite a good choice to have a coffee on a rainy day. You're surrounded by pretty terrific repertoire of DVDs and movie posters. There's one big table accompanied with several small ones, so it is not for too many people at once.

I've been to Musée d'Orsay twice over the years and have left both times feeling awed by what I saw…read moreand rueful of all I'd so obviously missed. You can't even speed run the place in two or three hours, and you probably need days or a lifetime to appreciate it in full. My more recent visit was earlier this month, with my husband and kids and other sundry family members, who spread out and explored the museum on their own. The d'Orsay opens at 9:30 in the morning and we booked tickets in advance for 10:00 entry. Getting in was quick and easy, and the crowd was pretty reasonable for the first hour or so, which we spent on the fifth floor. By the time we got to the special exhibit on the ground level, around noon, every room was thronged. We didn't make it to the second floor at all. The museum is a global treasure, a beautiful place with a staggering collection of French art, including the world's largest trove of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings. The d'Orsay was once the Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. It would be worth visiting for the architecture and use of space and light alone. The art, of course, is genuinely amazing. If you have even a passing familiarity with paintings as a genre, you will walk around the d'Orsay going, "Oh, THAT's here?" I saw multiple paintings I'd encountered in jigsaw puzzles, or on the covers of Debussy piano books. Manet, Cezánne, Gauguin, Degas; a whole room of Van Gogh, including one of his most recognizable self-portraits and his "Bedroom in Arles" (a very enjoyable 2,000-piece puzzle). Monet everywhere--I guess the d'Orsay owns 86 of his paintings. I loved the mini-exhibit of five paintings of the Rouen Cathedral, and even my six-year-old appreciated, if purely for subject matter, "The Saint-Lazare Station." Our kids, it turns out, do not yet appreciate art, and were in ragged form for much of our visit. Our three-year-old demanded to be carried at all times and kept insisting he didn't like "these pictures." (He also objected to his first nude, "The Bathers" by Renoir: "Why aren't they wearing any clothes, even? They can wear pants. They can cover themselves.") We had to take a breather in the underground cafe, with water and snacks, and this gave us enough steam to make it back out to the main floor. We managed to zip through a few of the many rooms lining the main corridor on our way up to the Renoir exhibit at the front of the museum. This part of our visit could not have been more cursory, and yet we stumbled upon Courbet's self-portrait, "The Desperate Man"--a cool painting I'd never seen before--and Millet's "The Angelus," a painting I'd learned about at the d'Orsay many years earlier. The Renoir exhibit (Renoir and Love: A Joyful Modernity, apparently just ended) was spectacular, an expansive collection of iconic paintings displayed for maximum impact. It was also jam packed and slightly unpleasant to navigate with two children on the verge of meltdown. I'd love to go back to Paris and explore the d'Orsay at my leisure. I'm sure it'd also be worthwhile to go with a guide, and perhaps two older, well-behaved children who might get something out of the experience. In the meantime, I'm grateful I've been able to see the place at all. It's a marvelous museum, one of the greatest in the world.

One visit is not enough…read more When you learn to swim. One lesson is never enough. The more you dive into the depths and emerge for a breath of air, the more you enjoy. The more rapturous moments are grasped. Ah, so is the Musee d'Orsay. It is not a museum to plunge to once. One must visit multiple times. Otherwise, it is impossible to swim between exhibits, paddle through the intentions of artists. Be sure, you don't need to swim to enjoy the galleries. Even dog paddling between famous works is enjoyable. However, to truly move through exhibits with ease takes practice. You will thank yourself.