Come with me on a tour of the famous bookstore, Shakespeare & Co.
“Shakespeare and Company is the name of two independent English-language bookstores that have existed on Paris’s Left Bank. The first was opened by Sylvia Beach, an American, on 19 November 1919, at 8 rue Dupuytren, before moving to larger premises at 12 rue de l’Odéon in the 6th arrondissement in 1922. During the 1920s, Beach’s shop was a gathering place for many then-aspiring writers such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, and Ford Madox Ford. It closed in 1941 during the German occupation of Paris and never re-opened.
The second bookstore is situated at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, in the 5th arrondissement, and is still in operation today.”*
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