This little bookstore is as famous as its neighbors: the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Seine River or Place Saint-Michel. The current location and establishment is not the original bookstore with this name. The first Shakespeare and Company English language bookstore was founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919 on Paris' Left Bank. A later independent English-language bookstore was opened in 1951 by George Whitman, also located on Paris' Left Bank, but under a different name. Whitman adopted the "Shakespeare & Co." name in 1965 in tribute to Sylvia Beach's store on the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth, and it continues to operate under this name to this day.
Both bookstores quickly became the focal point of literary culture in bohemian Paris in their own time, the stores being a gathering place for many writers and poets such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was featured in the 2011 movie "Midnight in Paris".
The shop houses aspiring writers and artists in exchange for their helping out around the bookstore. Since the shop opened in 1951, more than 30,000 people have slept in the beds found tucked between bookshelves.[5] The shop's motto, "Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise," is written above the entrance to the reading library.
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