Toulouse.The Trinity Library celebrates its two years
Formerly Jouanaud-Siloé, this bookstore on rue de la Trinité had a facelift in March 2020. While keeping the spirit and substance of the religious bookstore, the new owner, Vincent Rieunier wants to emphasize the family and young people and develop the beautiful books and leisure department.
This young owner is not at his first attempt since he also manages the Arsène store and the Pipelettes, rue de Metz and ART, rue Boulbonne, but he would like to point out that he spends most of his time in his library. “These are managers who are in other stores and my main occupation remains with the books”, he specifies. For this enthusiast, extending the history of the bookstore was a natural fit. Léopold Jouanaud, the founder Since 1939 and quickly put in difficulty for his position as a Catholic rather on the left, and, after its reopening after the war and the plasticing of the bookstore by the OAS in 1962, it was Benoit Bougerol, after his father, who developed it, before selling it to François Raverdeau, an engineer by training like him, and who retired in 2020. The bookstore has always been known as selling at least 50% religious books and it remains d Elsewhere now the only one in Toulouse with such an important Catholic specificity, but it now wants to be more eclectic as evidenced by the presence of the latest Joël Dicker at the head of the gondola near the cash desk. “We now have very diversified shelves, says Vincent Rieunier, and all religions are represented here and our customers can also order all the books coming out of the territory, even generalists”.
In this Easter and anniversary period, the Trinity Library is all the better for its name. For the occasion, Vincent Rieunier wants to develop meetings with writers. Thus, Marie Binet will present on Saturday April 8 between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., for an exchange meeting around her latest book “For the best”.