Dr Tony Shaw

This is quite a smart one too, although the wire scratched me. As compensation  (really out of interest) I took Patrick Besson and Danièle T...

And what could enhance the rather idyllic setting at Saint-Hymer than a well-maintained boîte à lire just in front of a stream and behind a...

A staunchly secular boîte à lire in Évreux, with a strict rule: ' rappel : AUCUN LIVRE sur la religion MERCI '. It seems to be run ...

Well, two boîtes à lire in Amboise anyway: I've no idea if there are any more.

Another boîte à lire , and quite an impressive one too. Pity I couldn't figure out how to open the latch on the lefthand side, but in sp...

With its connections with the wonderful Raymond Queneau, it would be a disappointing not to see a boîte à lire , and sure enough there is on...

A rather different boîte à lire in Draché, and interesting to find a book on Descartes (both the philosopher and the nearby village which is...

An interesting boîte à lire (here called niche  à livres ) , by the church in Véretz, in the shadow of the white mulberry tree, and quite w...

With a name like Vue, how could such a village not have a boîte à lire ? And this at the time of the visit was quite a well-stocked one. I l...

I believe the boîtes à lire in Lisieux conform to the same structural pattern, as in for instance Dijon, so I just include one of them here...

This small boîte à lire is in front of the mairie in Fère-en-Tardenois. As for Fère-en-Tardenois being the Capitale mondiale de la poésie ...

This is probably one of the smallest  Boîtes à lire I've seen, but then Lacroste only has a population of over 700. All the same, there...

I just love  Boîtes à lire , and even if I can't find anything that pleases me – for the record in the three weeks I've been here I...

 La Coudre is a tiny village which nevertheless has a boîte à lire :

It's odd that we've only come across two  boîtes à lire  after more than two weeks in France, but then that's how it sometimes i...

An interesting and quite fully packed one, this.

This  Boîte à lire in Bâgé-le-Châtel (actually called a Cabane  à livres ) didn't prove fruitful for me in any way,    but I applau...

A rather stylish  Boîte à lire  (here called a  Boîte à Livres ) in rather unstylish surroundings: at the side of the public toilets. But...

And yet another  Boîte à Lire , which I'd not noticed when we were last here two years ago. I collected Régis Jauffret's Bravo  a...

Yet another open  Boîte à lire  (here called Grenier aux livres  and in Tramayes).