It is no exaggeration to say that the bookshop’s closure has been a loss not just for Paris but for the West. It is a betrayal of the intellect—and a reminder that this ultimately is a battle for cultural survival. The shop stood as a challenge to the homogenizing forces of globalism, to the intellectual conformity that stifles debate, to the erosion of the particular in favor of the universal. It was a library of resistance—a bulwark against forgetting.