What The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore is known for
The Red Wheelbarrow occupies two addresses on rue de Médicis across from the Luxembourg Gardens, an English-language bookshop that has anchored Paris's Left Bank literary scene since opening in the Marais in 2001. Alongside its adult store at no. 11, no. 9 now houses The Red Balloon, its bilingual children's offshoot, and both host a steady calendar of author readings and poetry nights.
How ORBIS reads this city
Best for — Bookstore, independent, anglophone
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