GALIGNANI LIBRARY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 6

GALIGNANI LIBRARY

TAKEN OVER BY THE GERMANS IN PARIS. The Germans in Paris have made the Galignani Library, in the Rue de Rivoli, their own. It is here the Germans go to purchase their German newspapers and * publications and books In the window the Germans have placed “Histoire de Deux Peoples; I’Allemagne,” by Jacques Bainville. A notice in German next to it leads, “The greatest French contemporary historian was of the opinion that Germany should be cut up.” Galignani’s is known to every English visitor and resident. It was opened in the early years of last century, and attached to the bookshop there used to be a newspaper, “Galignani’s Daily Messenger,” founded in 1814. It owed its origin to the fact that British officers of the army of occupation after the first abdication of Napoleon used to meet in this shop to get .what news they could from “The Times” and gossip. The proprietor thought it would be a good idea to gather gossip and information and print it daily, which led to the creation of the daily newspaper which was published regularly until 1904. Thackeray was at one time its editor, and his chair was long shown as a precious relic. One wonders who has the chair now? The last editor of “Galignani’s Daily Messenger” was Sir Norman Angell.