The Paris Book Festival, held at the ephemeral Grand Palais near the Eiffel Tower and other venues in the capital, attracted 103,000 visitors from Friday to Sunday, its organizers said.
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Organized for the third time at the ephemeral Grand Palais, before moving to the Grand Palais in April 2025 after its reopening following work, the 2024 Paris Book Festival attracted 103,000 visitors from Friday April 12 to Sunday April 14. announced its organizers. This year the event had Quebec, the French-speaking province of Canada, as guest of honor.
Of the 103,000 visitors, 45% were under the age of 25 (entrance was free for this age group), while the purchase of books increased by 6%, the organizers further indicated. Among the highlights of this edition, the “Grande Dictée des Jeux” organized on the Champ de Mars with three spelling tests, on the themes “faster”, “higher” and “stronger”, 100 days from Paris Olympics.
160,000 visitors under the old format
The Paris Book Festival attracted 102,000 visitors in April 2023. The event succeeded in 2022 the Paris Book Fair, created in 1981 and which no longer corresponded to the wishes of several publishers because of its gigantism at Paris Expo Porte of Versailles, immense exhibition center. The last of the 39 editions under the old format attracted 160,000 visitors in March 2019.
