What is the Vistemboire des Panoramas?

The Story Shop

Explaining a new concept in a few words is difficult.

Back when I invented the wheel, fire, and the Internet, I already had trouble explaining the principle in a few words. With the Vistemboire des Panoramas, it's even harder.

But I'm an optimistic person, and I'm assuming that if you've made it this far, you're not going to be a dozen lines away. So here it is, in twelve lines but very simply told:

The main activity of Vistemboire is to tell stories! I find beautiful, surprising, interesting, funny, authentic stories (there are loads!) and I tell them by gathering all the objects that relate to them. It's like a small museum that exhibits stories and we come to visit "the exhibition on the history of the theft of the Mona Lisa", then from June 20, "the exhibition on the constitutions of France", then from July 20, the one on "the Universal Exhibition of 1889", etc. One story at a time. The visit is completely free and can last 5 minutes if you are in a hurry or an hour as long as your curiosity is not satisfied.

The Vistemboire is therefore a place that offers stories and entry is completely free!

Since I don't have the fortune I deserve and unfortunately have to earn my living on this earth, the Vistemboire is also a store that sells the souvenir of the stories and all sorts of curious, interesting, decorative, or even simply related objects to the universe of the place. You can enjoy the story for free and buy a souvenir. Or just one. Or just the other.

At the origin of the Vistemboire

The creation of the Vistemboire goes back so far that the memory of its foundation has been lost in the mists of history and is still the subject of fierce debate among experts today.

The long-held theory of a she-wolf who nursed a demigod at the breasts of commerce is today highly contested by historians of the Friedland school.

The hypothesis of an alchemist's experiment going wrong when the lucky penny was plunged into the crater of Vesuvius remains to be proven.

It is now almost certain that the words " by appointment to his majesty, William the Conqueror " affixed to the window are apocryphal.

Finally, the hypothesis of the so-called "Grenelle" school, always supported by Michelet and Bainville, of a simple facade for a house of revellers run by Lulu la Nantaise, has never been proven, any more than that of Vidocq's lair.

In the absence of consensus, we are reduced to still considering the version, however highly fanciful, of a gentle madman who, after having been a director of a public institution, a business creator, a consultant; after having worked in international investments, public transport, economic intelligence, etc., fell in love with the place and thus became a trader on the threshold of fifty.

This sounds absurd, of course, but remember that the same thing was said about Santa Claus before his existence was scientifically proven by Professor Ragout.