Shakespeare And Company Bookstore In Paris, France by Rick Rosenshein

Rick Rosenshein

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Shakespeare And Company Bookstore In Paris, France

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Rick Rosenshein

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In 1951 this Shakespeare and Company bookstore was opened on Paris' left bank by an American ex-serviceman named George Whitman. His bookstore is located at 37 rue de la B�cherie, near Place Saint-Michel, just steps from the Seine, Notre Dame and the �le de la Cit�. The original name for Witman's bookstore was "Le Mistral." This was not the first Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. Sylvia Beach, an American expatriate from New Jersey, established Shakespeare and Company in 1919 at 8 rue Dupuytren. The store functioned as a lending library as well as a bookstore. In 1921, Beach moved it to a larger location at 12 rue de l'Od�on, where it remained until 1941. This original Shakespeare and Company bookstore closed in December 1941 during the German occupation of France in World War II. At the 12 Rue Od�on, Paris' location of the original Shakespeare & Company, the building has a memorial plaque in Sylvia Beaches honor. As the story is told, George Whitman had modeled his shop after Sylvia Beach's. In 1958, while dining with Whitman at a party, Beach announced that she was handing her bookstores name over to him for his bookshop. In 1964, after Sylvia Beach's death and on the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth, Whitman renamed his store "Shakespeare and Company.

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