{"id":12637,"date":"2019-07-26T09:31:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2019-07-26T09:31:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:31:05","slug":"the-traveling-bookstore-of-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12637","title":{"rendered":"The Traveling Bookstore of France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Jean-Jacques Megel-Nuber\u2019s first drawing of his imagined bookstore on wheels had little in common with its final design. \u201cIt looked like the cabins in a Christmas market,&#8221; says Megel-Nuber, who is from the Alsace region of eastern France, known for its festive seasonal markets. He had originally thought about opening a brick-and-mortar bookshop but decided he wanted one that could travel to French country towns whose bookstores have often closed. He also wanted a space where he could live during his travels.<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So he commissioned a young design firm to construct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/tiny-traveling-french-bookstore\">a cute, little store on a trailer<\/a> that travels through rural France with 3,000 books, typically stopping at festivals.  He&#8217;s dubbed his shop<em> Au Vrai Chic Litt\u00e9r\u00e8re<\/em> (The Truly Elegant Literary).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Jacques Megel-Nuber\u2019s first drawing of his imagined bookstore on wheels had little in common with its final design. \u201cIt looked like the cabins in a Christmas market,&#8221; says Megel-Nuber, who is from the Alsace region of eastern France, known for its festive seasonal markets. He had originally thought about opening a brick-and-mortar bookshop but decided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Traveling Bookstore of France<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[1025],"class_list":["post-12637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","tag-french"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}