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If you enjoy reading,
don't miss Shakespeare and Company when you visit Paris. It's a famous English-language
bookstore. An American, Sylvia Beach, opened the first Shakespeare and Company in
history in 1919. She did more than selling books. Her bookstore was also a
library, and she even had beds for writers visiting there. Ms Beach was not
only kind to people but also good at choosing books, so her bookstore was often
visited by writers like Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. But in 1941, after
the Germans took power in Paris, Ms Beach had to close her bookstore.
In 1951, another
American, George Whitman, opened another English-language bookstore, Le
Mistral, in Paris. Since then, just as Ms Beach did, Mr Whitman had also made
his bookstore a library for people to borrow books, and a free hotel for writers
to stay in. To remember Ms Beach, Mr Whitman changed the name of his bookstore
to Shakespeare and Company in 1964, two years after Ms Beach died.
Next time when you are
in Paris, don't forget to visit this nice bookstore and see if you can spend a
night there.
