He has left us in a celebrated print a representation of a bookseller's shop of his time. It is for us an interesting page, in which is shown simply and rather naïvely the picturesque side of these stores, with the dealer and his wife selling new works to their customers. The shop is compact, and very much like the open-air stalls of to-day; posting-bills above the shelves indicate the "new books;" and if the inscriptions given by Bosse be credited, the Palace dealer offered his books with singular eclecticism: Boccaccio, Aretin, the _Astrée_ of D'Urfé, the Bible, and Machiavelli. In the hands of the woman is seen the romance _Marianne_: "Icy les cavaliers les plus adventureux En lisant les romans s'animent à combattre; Et de leur passion les amants langoureux Flattent les mouvements par des vers de théâtre," says the text of Bosse. What was commonly done then is still done, shopping and rummaging the stalls, and those of the Palace were attractive. If we credit Sauval, the great number of booksellers, in the middle of the century, was due to the wits of the Hotel de Rambouillet. The passion for novelty, for recent works, had produced that quantity of publishers, he says, that we have seen on the Pont Neuf, and that we still see to-day at the Palace and the University, but of which the number is so multiplied in all these places that in the Palace they count more than other dealers; and as to the neighbourhood of the University, they are obliged, in order to lodge the rest, to extend the ancient bounds from St. Yves to the river (Sauval, _Antiquités de Paris_, viii., 354).