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The Portuguese Bookstore was founded, jointly with the typographic workshop of Michel Chandeigne (french page) in Paris, in 1986.

In 1992 he associated with Anne Lima to found the Chandeigne publishing house. They started by publishing, the nowadays bestseller The Frontier (La Frontière - in french) by Pascal Quignard, and the first book in the prestigious series Magellane : Tragic Maritime Histories (Histoires tragico-maritimes - in french), three stories of Portuguese shipwreck in the 16th century.
The publishers remain true to the good old "laws" of typography. While the workshop is equipped with up-to-date software, the publishing process follows typographic traditions, with results highly praised both by press public. Five to eight titles are published each year, in the various series (Magellane, Lusitane, Péninsules and Grands Formats).
The Portuguese bookstore offers a very rich collection of the Portuguese world : Portugal, Brazil, Portuguese Africa and Asiatic communities of Portuguese culture. The store remains true to its first vocation: books, only books, with a strong leaning toward litterature and history, especially history of the Discoveries, Ethnology, Art, not forgetting, of course, ALL French publications concerning the Portuguese world. The bookstore issues a supplement to its catalog, containing information and critiques on new released publications, three or four times a year.

The Portuguese bookstore is staffed by Michel Chandeigne,(generally present on Monday and Saturday) and Elisabeth Monteiro Rodrigues (from Tuesday to Friday). Anne Lima is present in the library normally on Monday and Thursday.

Portuguese Bookstore and Chandeigne publisher
10, rue Tournefort
75005 Paris
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The bookstore is open Monday to Saturday from 11 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 7 pm
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Conferences:
Michel Chandeigne, gives, upon request, courses for bookkeepers and librarians (for example), as well as poetry sessions and conferences on various subjects, among which:
- Lisbon
- Portuguese literature
- The construction of the world through Portuguese Cartography of the 15th and 16th centuries (History of the Discoveries through Cartography). Projection of slides included.
- Nzinga, Queen of Angola, a fascinating feminine African figure (slides)
- The Discovery of the Far North: the Voyage of Barentsz 1594-1597 (slides)
- The whaleboats of Spitzberg in the 16th century (slides)

The general catalog (on paper), including about 3000 titles available, can be ordered from the bookstore.
Upon request we will send you by air mail our 3 or 4 annual supplements of the catalog. (Please e-mail us and write your address).
We can also send you on these occasions the full catalog of Chandeigne publications (about 3OOO titles).
To receive our paper Newsletter, e-mail us your name and postal adress.