Shakespeare and Company Bookstore

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This is the Shakespeare and Company bookstore, a sort of landmark of the Latin Quarter for many decades.

The location you see here, practically across the river from Notre-Dame cathedral, has been in business for about a half century. Although this store is associated with the store originally run by Sylvia Beach and mentioned by Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast, the store that Hemingway mentions was at a different location (near this one), and no longer exists (although another bookstore is still at that address). Sylvia Beach left the rights to the name to George Whitman in her will, and he gave the name to this bookshop, which he owned.

As you can see, on nice days, this store is a popular gathering place for tourists, students, Anglophones and Anglophiles, and others.

Photographed on July 12, 2008.