France
- Gibert Joseph (leading independent bookstore chain. The Paris venture is the biggest bookstore in France)
- Hachette Distribution Services
- Flammarion
- Fnac (78 stores with book departments in France, 65 in 8 other countries)
- Bertelsmann subsidiary France Loisirs
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Famous quotes containing the word france:
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.”
—Jules Mazarin (1602–1661)