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Bookshops

A Paris bookshop between the wars was a lending library, a poste restante, a bank, and occasionally a publisher. These are the shops that did that work, and the addresses where they did it.

Illustration of the original Shakespeare and Company shopfront on the rue de l'OdéonBookshop · 1919–1941 · Left Bank, ParisShakespeare and CompanySylvia Beach's lending library published Ulysses and fed the Lost Generation's reading habit; a decade after it closed, George Whitman's separate shop took up the name and never stopped.Read the history

The addresses

A shop can outlive its address, and a name can move to a different building. Each address has its own page, with what happened there and what stands there now.