Dr C. Mansfield

Clean waiting rooms with comfy seating not those freezing metal chairs you find in many old stations. Good signage.

Le Livre Penseur at 23 bis Rue des Écoles in the 5th arro Paris was the perfect discovery for me during my literary tourism visit in mid-June 2019. I was on the trail of Patrick Modiano and stayed at the nearby M hotel. In the second-hand boxes at the front of Le Livre Penseur was this gem, Quartier Perdu, which filled my reading gap for the whole time I was researching in Paris. Ask for one of their bookmarks, I am sure they will become collectables by 2020.

This statiionery shop still stocks the Quo Vadis diaries that run for an academic year; I had not seen them for a decade or more. Now enjoying my Universitaire Prestige 2017 à 2018 with its creamy pages, Ref 687. And to write my appointments what better than a 0,5 Pilot V-ball, also stocked here.

Difficult to find with no signs out on the streets.