Where is Charlie Hebdo? My pursuit of the first copies in America

But places like Albertine and Book Culture, another Manhattan shop, went a different route.

The stores made arrangements with Emmanuel Saint-Martin, the owner of a website catering to French ex-pats who has fielded “thousands” of requests for the new issue.

Saint-Martin reached out to Uni-Presse, a French government-backed organization dedicated to promoting French culture and press throughout the world.

He arranged for Air France and La Compagnie, another French airline that flies to Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, to get the issues across the Atlantic.

And on Friday morning, about 20 copies then arrived via FedEx to the upstate New York home of Catherine Lamy, the East Coast representative for Uni-Presse.

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