Shakespeare And Company Paris
A cult bookstore
Shakespeare And Company Bookshop
Shakespeare and Company in Paris is an independent bookstore founded in 1919.
It was visited by famous authors belonging to the so-called Lost Generation, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce.
Shakespeare and Company / VPD-Guiajando
Clients bought or borrowed high-quality books, some of which were hard to come by at the time . Its owner at the time, Sylvia Beach, was the first to publish the famous novel Ulysses, in 1922, which would later be censored in England and the United States.
This first bookstore was closed, and years later it was opened in another place, located on the left bank of the Seine, near Notre Dame and the Saint Michel square in the Latin Quarter. Its second owner, George Whitman , was a very interesting man, who brought books from all the trips he made around the world, he died in 2011 at the age of 98.
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in front of Shakespeare And Company, in the film Before Sunset, by Richard Linklater
Shakespeare And Company at the Cinema
It is a unique bookstore, with a magical and unusual atmosphere. Its façade is dressed in green and yellow colors and both it and its interior have appeared in already cult films such as Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.
Visit Shakespeare And Company in Paris
In it we can find books of Anglo-Saxon literature filling its old shelves to the ceiling.
There is a section of the bookstore full of books that you can sit down to read all day if you feel like it , for which there are armchairs available.
There is also a piano available for the less timid.
Undoubtedly a paradise for book lovers , and one of the places in Paris that many would never tire of returning to.
Address
37 Rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris, France
Schedule
Monday to Friday: 10am – 11pm
Saturdays and Sundays: 11am-11pm
How to get?
Metro: Line 4 Saint-Michel / RER: Saint-Michel /Notre Dame.
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