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Marseille's oldest bookshop has been guarding La Canebière since 1919, its 850 square meters packed with everything from French classics to English novels and a seriously enchanting children's section. Browse the shelves, catch a photography exhibition in the gallery, then settle into the café with your finds.

Marseille's oldest bookshop
independent bookstore
gallery exhibitions
literary café

Tips

📚“a crazy soul” (François Champsaur)
🧸“the glory that is the Children's Literature department”
café corner perfect for settling in with a book

Librairie Maupetit

142 La Canebière, 13001 Marseille, France

Upcoming at Librairie Maupetit

Saturday, Jun 13
Rencontres avec Chourouk Hriech, Anne Bourrassé et Armelle Dakouo

Rencontres avec Chourouk Hriech, Anne Bourrassé et Armelle Dakouo

June 13 at 4:30pm

Explore the migration of imaginaries and women's artistic narratives with Chourouk Hriech, Anne Bourrassé, and Armelle Dakouo. This intimate conversation celebrates the artist's new monograph tracing twenty years of drawing across multiple geographies.

Monday, Jun 15
Rencontre avec David Dupuis

Rencontre avec David Dupuis

June 15 at 5pm

Anthropologist David Dupuis, who curated the Musée du quai Branly's shamanism exhibition, unpacks his new book on Europeans chasing ayahuasca visions in the Amazon. Expect a heady blend of fieldwork stories and big questions about perception, belief, and what we think we know about reality.

Thursday, Jun 18
Rencontre avec Laurence Rosier

Rencontre avec Laurence Rosier

June 18 at 10am

Reclaim the words that wound. Belgian linguist Laurence Rosier unpacks her research on sexism and insults against women, then brings it to life through an empowerment performance drawn from her book "La riposte : femmes, discours et violences." A morning where language becomes both weapon and shield.