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A TASTE OF LIBRAIRIE PASSION AUTOMOBILE, AN AUTOMOTIVE BOOKSTORE IN AN UNLIKELY PLACE: PARIS.

PARIS IS NOT  the obvious place for an automotive bookstore, especially not in the wealthy 6th arrondissement, on one of the city’s premier shopping streets. But there it sits, the Librairie Passion Automobile, an oasis for the car obsessive.

“Something I find funny is that some people, when they walk by the window and look at what we sell, there are times when they can’t believe their eyes that something like this exists,” says Raphaël Galdos, the store’s manager. “Because to them, it’s just so unlikely to sell books on cars. To them, the world of cars, I think, is very limited. But actually, it’s not. It has no limits.”