Literary fans must not miss it! Shakespeare Bookstore was born after World War I, mainly selling English books, it is said that Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein and other "lost generation" in Paris were all the bookstore owner Sylvia Bisch. The bookstore was closed during World War II due to Nazi harassment. In 1951, an American named George Whitman opened a bookstore selling English books at 37 BUCHERIE Street opposite Notre Dame. Like Sylvia, he turned the second floor of the bookstore into a library, with beds in the stacks, into a gathering of literati and even a temporary residence. George Whitman was close to the American East Coast writers, and in the 1950s, bookstores became the gathering place for the downfall writers in Paris, Ginsburg and William Burroughs, who read their works in the open space in front of the bookstore. Later, the owner of the San Francisco "City Lights" bookstore was often in Shakespeare & Company. In the 1960s, Whitman officially renamed the bookstore to Shakespeare Bookstore with the consent of Miss Bisch. Great ~