Shock for French culture enthusiasts: after the Fnac, Gibert Joseph and other iconic bookstores close their doors

French cultural brands face an unprecedented wave of closures, marked by those of the Fnac des Champs-Élysées in Paris and several emblematic bookstores. This alarming trend highlights the growing fragility of cultural trade, threatened by e-commerce, the rise in rents and the digitisation of usages. End case for Gibert Joseph in Paris After the Fnac des Champs-Élysées, it is Gibert Joseph's turn to lower the curtain in the capital. The historic…