Time travel while reading...

The Bookshop

The Bookshop is accessible to all: you don’t need a Cité de l'Histoire entrance ticket to do your shopping.

Within the City of History, the Bookshop, with its large shelves, invites the curious to discover many works of historians. Stroll among the shelves, have fun recognizing the names you have met in the shows, or those of historians and researchers you know.

Choose to continue your discovery of history by getting a historical essay or story about your favorite time!

Historical

The best of the discipline

Complete

Latest books

Free access

Schedules of the Bookshop

Monday

Closed

Tuesday

10am - 7pm

Wednesday

10am - 7pm

Thursday

10am - 7pm

Friday

10am - 9pm

Saturday

10am - 9pm

Sunday

10am - 7pm

Access

Subway

Line 1 - La Défense

RER

Line A - La Défense

Tram

Line T2

Transiliens

Lines L and U

Several buses

LOCATION

The Bookshop of the Cité de l'Histoire

Under the Grande Arche

1, parvis de la Défense

92800 Puteaux

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Spend your day at the Cité de l'Histoire

The Shop - free access

Keep a souvenir of the Cité de l'Histoire! In the Shop, find different items in the colors of the City and different eras of history.

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The Restaurant - free access

For lunch or a break between two activities, the Restaurant welcomes visitors to the Cité de l'Histoire as well as visitors passing through.

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