Shakespeare and Company Paris
A Cult Bookstore
Shakespeare and Company Bookshop Paris
Shakespeare and Company in Paris is an independent bookshop 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.
This first bookshop was closed, and years later a new one opened in a different location on the Left Bank of the Seine, near Notre-Dame Cathedral and the plaza Saint Michel in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Its second owner, George Whitman, was a fascinating man who brought back books from all his travels around the world; he passed away in 2011 at the age of 98.
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Visiting Shakespeare and Company in Paris
Inside, you can find books of Anglo-Saxon literature filling its old shelves from floor to ceiling.
There is a section of the bookshop filled with books that you can sit and read all day if you feel like it, for which armchairs are available.
There is also a piano available for the less shy.
Address
Hours
Monday to Friday: 10am – 11pm
Saturdays and Sundays: 11am – 11pm
How to get there?
Metro: Line 4 Saint-Michel / RER: Saint-Michel / Notre-Dame
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