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Feb 2022
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Le messager des livres (The Book Messeng...

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Luc was a maintenance technician in Parisian hotels who dreamed of becoming a bookseller. With little experience, but a lot of passion, he opened a new kind of bookstore, one aimed at serving the busy working people and immigrants living in his suburb outside Paris.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3HCNxfk.

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