this has been such a long overdue. some week ago i watch "Before Sunset" and realized that this wasn't the first time i saw this bookstore. before i knew i was mezmerized by it, i had gathered information from all over the place and decide to write about the charming "Shakespeare and Company"
Shakespeare and Company, despite the post title, is not quite as enigma as its look. it was located right across Notre Dame at 37 Rue de la Bucherie, Paris since 1951. probably the most famous bookstore in Paris as it hold the literary festival every year. The founder was not Shakespeare and his friends (lol) but an American named George Whiteman whose now in his nineties and living just above the building.
okay, before i sound anymore like a tour guide, the cool thing i found out about; this place has been offering beds for those ambitious writers since post world war II period. these writer in this case called "tumbleweed" included Ernest Hemingway, has to work for the bookstore in exchange of a place to rest their heads and some powerful novelist vistas. what a place! i think most of people are not only there to buy some english books but also to see the real eminent slumbers.
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