Please advise of the location of an FNAC in Odeon or St. Michel? their website is confusing and their number is in french. thanks.

It's on Blvd St Germain between Odeon and St Michel. There is also a large one at Place Bastille

And on rue de Rennes up toward Montparnasse, IIRC.

The FNAC on boulevard Saint Germain is a "FNAC Digital" selling only technological products.

FNAC Forum des Halles is the biggest one in the center of Paris, while the largest FNAC in Paris, occupying the entire building of a former department store, is FNAC Ternes.

There is also a large one in Le Passage du Havre, right across the Gare de l'Est.

You mean Saint Lazare.

The one on the Champs-Elysees doesn't sell books any more.

The one on the Champs Elysées never did sell books. That's why FNAC keeps hoping that it can buy Virgin Megastore France some day (owned by Hachette, the French book publisher). The only reason it wants to buy Virgin is to get its hands on the Virgin Champs Elysées store. And the only reason that Virgin sells books is to compete with FNAC. If FNAC ever succeeds, it will sell off nearly all of the existing Virgin stores in France (and rebrand the others to FNAC).

Indeed; I mean Gare St Lazare. My mistake.

But I did like this particular FNAC. Big but not too big, busy but not too busy. Plus I personally think that the Passage du havre is a nice little shopping centre, with a lot of stores I happen to like (Celio, Imaginarium - a great toy store-, FNAC etc).

huh, I could have sworn they had a small book dept on the Champs-Elysees at one time, but in any case, if the OP wants to go there for tickets, I think the Champs-Elysees store is probably the closest versus an Odeon location. Depends where else you want to be or are around.

BUt if Virgin only sells books to compete with FNAC, how come the Virgin on the Champs-Elysees sells books when that FNAC does not? I would think they'd actually get a lot of business, as anyone who wants a book and finds out FNAC doesn't have any probably goes right into Virgin (in that location, I know I do).

FNAC has the albatross of FNAC Ternes hanging around their neck -- their biggest store -- and they don't want to draw any additional business away from it. It's just a little too far away from the Champs Elysées to be convenient, so they don't get tourist traffic, but local people will go there if there is no alternative.

If they ever get their hands on the Virgin place, I'm pretty sure that they will dump the Ternes location quite fast.

We used the FNAC at the Bastille and it was quite easy.