Hello!

Im working on this Miniart building.



But instead of making it into a Cafe, I would like to have it as a bookshop or combined book and record-shop. The era to be the early fourties in France.

What I need is suggestions for the name in correct french. As I has almost no knowledge of french language at all.

Cheers

Hi

in French a bookshop is a Librairie

Hello Janne,

I guess this could be inspiring for you :
http://www.lemondedesarts.com/_borders/librairie5.jpg

Record shop is "disquaire" in french. But I guess adisquaire should have been very rare in France in 1940, specially after the defeat. You should have some in the big cities like Paris, Lyon, Marseille, but surely not in the countryside. People were too occupied to survive in such time

Best,
Julien

Thanks for the suggestions and input. Exactly what I needed.

I have made this to adopt to the windows and the sign on the building.


The two on the top are to be minmized to one third to be easer to work with but the last one is in scale.

Please check the spelling. On the sign of the top I am uncertain whether the "e" in e´trangère should be capital or not?

The second sign looks a little bit empty, suggestions for adding text on it?

The last one also have some dead space, could there be something added to this one as well?

Last, I want to make a sign in french that says: "Be right back" or "Temporarely out"?
Could you help me out with this as well?

Cheers

The e could be in capital letter as all the words on your signs starts with a capital letter. On the contrary the T shouldn't be a capital letter.



To me it looks good.



Try to add the name of the shopkeeper just after the word Librairie. What does 1202 stand for ? Is it the year of establishment of the shop ? If so, I suggest you type 1802. If it's the building number just remove one figure as the streets in France rarely have so many buildings.



I would write "Je suis absent temporairement"

Olivier

Thanks again for the input.

Does this look more believable?



Cheers

Hello Janne,

The two beige pannels look good.
I would have placed "manuel" (handbook) in the second pannel, as it's more related to dictionnaire and lexiques, where as the first one is more litterature in the noble sense.
For the black panel, "libraire de Levy" sounds strange. Levy is the owner I guess ? Then you should write either "la librairie de Levy" or "librairie levy", the second one being the most used. I would also make the numbers smaller compared to the text, as the most important is the name of the shop, not it's location.
Lastly I would say instead of "je suis absent temporairement" "je reviens dans quelques minutes", which gives the idea of someone going at the corner of the street to buy some cigarettes.
I hope not to be too boring with all this details.

Best,
Julien

Hi Janne,
I agree with Julien and hope to be not boring myself too
For the last panel, I suggest to use a font similar to hand writing and have a "horizontal" panel instead of the vertical one you've created. You even could use a black board with chalk inscriptions.

Olivier

Something like this :


I think you should remove the "67" on the main sign (and the "de" as well, like Julien has already said). Street numbers in France usually look like this :


The plate is generally located above the main entrance of the building.

If you want to add something to the main sign, you could add "Maison fondée en xxxx ", in smaller letters, "xxxx" being the year the shop was established.

HTH

Frenchy

First of all, Im only thankful for the help I get. If it wasnt important to me I wouldnt ask. Secondly, even if I do shortcuts sometimes when it comes to accuracy, I still would like to know the facts to make an estemation myself how important the matter is. Also in this stage is soo easy to change.

Also, I chose the name Levy, as its important for the scene Im makint that this shop is owned by someone that is supposed to be of jewish origin.

Heres the latest update in the signs.



Cheers or as I would put it in my "perfect" french: -Merci!

I wuld chose the last black panel, and make it as Frenchy did. In the time they used a lot chalkboard. So I would write "je reviens dans 5 minutes" without the white and green frame.
Could you describe the scene you want to depict ?

Best et de rien !

Julien

Hi!

The scene is supposed to be set shortly after the occupation of France.
Outside this bookshop is a Adler parked. The building is more or less the backdrop as well.

Some german soldiers/officers are checking the closed shopdoor. Some civilans passes by. The shopkeeper will be seen looking out the window on the second floor from behind the curtain.

Somebody has recently painted a sixpointed star on the shopwindow with the word: -Jude.

Thats more or less the main story and setting.

Cheers

Shouldn't it be "Juif" instead of "Jude" ?

HTH

Frenchy

I was thinking as the germans carried it out, they did just like they did in Germany? If that was common or not in France, I dont know? But I think that it would be a better effect and more understandable to the viewers?

Also it makes a barrier between the german soldiers and french surrounding?

Cheers

Janne, great project!
I don't know much about the German graffiti, but for a great site on French architecture, take a look here:

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/inventai/patrimoine/


I found this link elsewhere on the diorama forum and have been greatly inspired by it! Not that I have much finished in the way of French buildings for a diorama, but soon, soon enough!

Gideon

Thanks for the link Gideon!

I will go through it later.

Cheers

Bon Scott, Paris 9th Dec 1979!!