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 Generación Perdida, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce.

Customers would buy or borrow libros de gran calidad, algunos difíciles de conseguir por aquella época. 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 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.

Shakespeare and Company on Screen

It is a one-of-a-kind bookshop with a magical, extraordinary atmosphere. Its facade is dressed in green and yellow, and both the exterior and interior have aparecido en películas ya de culto such as Before Sunset by Richard Linklater and Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen.

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 puedes sentarte a leer el día entero si te apetece, for which armchairs are available.

There is also a piano available for the less shy.

Without a doubt, a paraíso para los amantes de la lectura, and one of those places in Paris that many visitors would never tire of returning to.

Address

37 Rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris, France

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