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Founder of iconic Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company dies

bonparisien:

George Whitman, the founder of Paris’s most famous English-language bookstore, died Wednesday aged 98. For sixty years his shop has been a magnet for literary greats, aspiring writers and book lovers.



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    to Shakespeare & Company yet. Maybe it’s because it’s on the Left Bank and I rarely make it over there these days, or...
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    This bookstore saved my life.
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    I’m very sad about this. I met him when I was at Shakespeare & Co...we chatted a bit. I...
  21. penseuse said: Aww no! :( This is very sad news - I think Shakespeare and Company is brilliant. I literally just found out about this bookshop earlier today, and I’m planning on visiting it when I go to Paris in February.
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