Albertine: A Place for French-American Intellectual Exchange

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Albertine: A Place for French-American Intellectual Exchange

credit to Nicole Saranerio
Location: 972 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10075
Opening Hours:Monday-Saturday 11AM-7PM; Sunday 11AM-6PM
Price:⭐️⭐️⭐️
Atmosphere:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Variety of Books:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

credit to: Albertine.com

💓History:

Albertine is inside the French Embassy’s Cultural Services building on Museum Mile, across the street from Central Park’s greenery. 
Offering books hot off the press (Albertine’s opening coincides with the France’s idiosyncratic publishing season of “la rentrée littéraire,” when a tidal wave of books are released every fall) to rare first editions like Voltaire’s 1767 “L’ingénu, histoire véritable.” 

Albertine hosts more than 14,000 books from 30 French-speaking countries.In partnership with the Cultural Services, Albertine also hosts lively debates and discussions exploring popular and classical culture through a modern and global lens.





😂Fun Facts:


  • Albertine is the only French bookstore in New York City 
  • Even though Albertine is a new bookstore, the building that houses it has been owned by the French government since 1952 and therefore Albertine is an integral part of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.（It was the structural anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, the first French cultural counsellor to the United States, who spotted it, and persuaded France to buy it.) The building's first incarnation was as a private home, a wedding gift to Payne Whitney and his bride.
  • Albertine’s ceiling – a hand-painted mural of constellations, stars, and planets — was modeled after the extraordinary ceiling of the music room at the Villa Stuck in Munich, Germany, crafted by Franz von Stuck (1863-1928).



credit to: coolhunting.com

😌References:
[1]https://www.albertine.com
[2]https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/albertine-reparue-french-bookshop-new-york
[3]https://untappedcities.com/2014/09/26/albertine-a-beautiful-french-bookstore-opens-in-the-french-embassy-on-fifth-avenue/
[4]https://coolhunting.com/culture/albertine-french-embassy-bookstore-new-york/




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