OH GOD SOMEBODY SAVE ME

[tenlittlebullets]

Amazon.fr has no shipping cost for books. It is absolutely 100% free within metropolitain France.

SAVE ME FROM MY OWN BIBLIOPHILIA



Already bought: George Sand, Lelia; Eugene Sue, Les Mysteres de Paris; Alfred de Musset, La Confession d'un enfant du siecle. Seriously considering: Mme de Stael, Corinne; Anon (attrib. Musset), Gamiani ou deux nuits d'exces.)

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[coloneldespard.livejournal.com]

Sorry - can't think of reasons not to buy them! I had cartons and cartons of books when I moved back from the UK...managed with bulk shipping rates by sea.

I'd be interested in your verdict on the Eugene Sue book - saw a reference to it in one of the social history books the other day, and was curious.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

As mentioned above, neither the French nor the American postal service offers bulk sea shipping. :((( The American post used to, but they abolished it sometime in 2007 "to cut costs." (Can't imagine how that cuts costs, mind you--a couple pallets of personal packages on a giant container ship aren't going to cost much.) I'll look at private companies but I probably won't be able to ship them on the cheap.

I've been looking for a copy of Les Mystères de Paris for at least two years--finally found one yesterday in a bookstore, but it was €27 or thereabouts, so I finally threw up my hands and got it used on Amazon.fr.