Shakespeare and Company is an iconic English- language bookstore located on the Left bank of Paris. It goes back to 1951 when it was opened by George Whitman.
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Originally called’ Le Mistral’, the name was changed to ‘Shakespeare and Company” in 1964 on the 400th birth anniversary of Shakespeare and as a tribute to the store set up by Sylvia Beach.
Sylvia Beach was an American -born bookseller and publisher. She lived most of her life in Paris and opened an English language bookstore and a lending library by the name of Shakespeare and Company in 1919.
Unfortunately, she had to close in 1941.
The present-day store stocks new and second-hand books and serves as an antiquarian bookseller and a free reading library open to the public.
The store houses aspiring writers and artists in exchange for helping out in the bookstore.
An interesting trivia about the place; since it opened in 1951, more than 30,000 people have slept in the beds found tucked between the bookshelves.
The store has an interesting motto-
‘Be not Inhospitable to Strangers Lest They Be Angels in Disguise.’
That’s Shakespeare and Company Bookstore for you.
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