Shakespeare & Company
37 rue de la Bûcherie
75005, Paris.
With a cameo appearance in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset, Shakespeare & Company is arguably the most iconic bookshop in the French capital. The building, a 17th century ex-monastery has become a landmark in the 5th arrondissement. Apart from being a bookstore, it also serves as a haven where aspiring writers can stay for free - Allen Ginsberg and Anaïs Nin have both been guests in the past. Originally established in 1919 by an American called Sylvia Beach, fellow expatriate George Whitman took over Shakespeare & Company after Beach’s death in 1951. Whitman’s daughter, Sylvia talks about the future of this historical, literary gem.
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The Bibliothèque Mazarine, which in 1945 was joined to the Institut de France, located since 1805 in the Collège des Quatre-Nations, is dependent on the French Ministry of Education. The Bibliothèque Mazarine’s reading room, restored between 1968 and 1974, recreates the surroundings of an important XVIIth century library and, over three hundred and fifty years after its foundation, remains an institution accessible to all, to the merely curious or the learned, nationals and foreigners.
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Château de Menthon-Saint-Bernard, France
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Hello! I'm Manda. I currently live in Auckland, New Zealand, but dream of Paris, New York and London. This blog is full of all my favourite things.
