Shakespeare and Company - Iconic Bookshop in Paris

[@tumblestack]

I discovered this bookshop when living and working as an au Pair in Paris in 1981. On my first visit into the store... a day I was feeling particularly lonely for home... I met the owner George. I specifically remember him saying to me. "You will never be lonely if you have books in your life"... and it made me smile to hear Sylvia Whitman repeat the sentiment here. Thank you!

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[@phillipsmom6252]

Back in the 70’s my 4th grade school teacher talked about how she went there and it sounded amazing to me. I went home from school and asked my dad if we could go there. He laughed and told me to save my money so I could go there and visit one day. I finally made it to Paris and went to the Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in 2023. It was magical. 👍😀💜

[@taval8389]

That's an amazing experience!!😊

[@juliehughes1258]

What a lovely story. Dads can be so special, as you know.

[@pickledOnionGal]

god, she's so beautiful

[@jelw3197]

Frieda M. I know right :(

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

Nahh...

[@robertimmanuel577]

My thoughts exactly

[@dustinalecxander8647]

S-SS-SIMPPP She really is.

[@kenadams2517]

Visiting Paris next year from Sydney and this has to be the most exiting thing for me. I'd rather be here than in the crowd to see the Mona Lisa.

[@marinova1147]

Did you enjoy it? And what did you read?:)

[@sara-rc2hr]

How's it been?

[@jaydeepbezbaruah7360]

She died in the crowd gathered to see Mona Lisa.

[@peachypeach6653]

the bookshop is actually really crowded nowadays. I had to wait in line 20 mins to get in. but its beautiful nevertheless.

[@joanreynolds955]

I was in Paris a couple of weeks ago. I had been looking forward to seeing Shakespeare and Company. There was a huge line to get in. It was such a letdown. It’s just another tourist trap. We just kept walking toward Notre Dame.

[@steveschwartz6450]

I stayed there in 1962 It was called the Mistral bookstore. I had no idea it was so famous.

[@jimmysrevenge1]

just came back from the shop. loved everything about it, aside from the "tourist attraction" vibe. lovely little place.

[@subhankarbanerjee8651]

The store, the music and she.... One word for them, "Angelic!"

[@recklessoldier]

I live in Paris and I love this place so much. It's so beautiful and there's such a great atmosphere 😌 one of the most beautiful library in Paris.

[@tavobraga]

do they have a café yet?

[@DaithiDublin]

I've only been to Paris twice, and this is one of those places I never got to see. One of the many. But it looks just the way Hemingway described in A Moveable Feast. Even the current Sylvia seems so much like the original, as he described her. Well, it never hurts to have something to look forward to, and maybe I'll get to sit there and read before too long.

[@Darkhurricane07]

I really like the idea of having an exhibition space and a café, I think it would help the store become even more successful and is a natural extension of a bookstore where people love to come to feel at home.

[@rossella1805]

Really a great video! I love so much Shakespeare and Company, an enchanting place where I spent lovely afternoon surrounded by books when I am in Paris... it's the library of my heart!

[@beamay]

She has a pretty face but she's also beautiful. You can't say that about a lot of pretty girls nowadays.

[@egyptgirl01]

Visiting Paris in November and I am so looking forward to seeing this!!

[@jimmcdonald3638]

We will be in Paris in 2 days and Shakespeare & Company is definitely on our list of things to see this trip. We have been to Paris several times over the past few years since we have lived in Germany, and it is one of my favorite cities in Europe! We just have not had time to visit the bookstore in the past. We are definitely fixing that this time!

[@OliviaSlusher]

:o i would absolutely love to stay up top the book shop and write! Man...

[@vicdelta31415]

Young aspiring writers living and working in a bookshop, why didn't that happen to me in my early twenties. I will never understand. Still hope to be a published author one day.

[@jimdavis928]

Visiting this bookstore in July 2019 was a dream come true!!

[@angelmorrigan7680]

beautiful bookshop!!! hope u can keep it open and busy and that your other dreams for it with the cafe and theatre will come true as well!!!

[@HazelCeej]

on my literary bucket list

[@daisyrootsbooks]

Wonderful

[@MartaSofialp]

I was there a few hours ago, it's my favorite place in Paris

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

Thats sad

[@MartaSofialp]

@@Stoney-Jacksman Why?

[@PurplePinkHearts]

I envy!

[@forrestpine4596]

One of why i am so obsessed with Paris... THIS of course, And finally see the syilvia whitman

[@adriansavastian8774]

Really this is a dream , it's wonderful..magic and so full with wisdom! I love the the books

[@brunotupi83br]

Hummm! It seems fantastic!

[@DerekLyons]

Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@stevecomstock6170]

Brilliant, I love this! A bookstore run by the daughter of an expat beatnik, what could be better?

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

Working class would be better

[@eclecticreader961]

This place is on my long-term travel plans list.

[@BetuTubeCIA]

Storytelling estou aqui por vc

[@BabyBeatriz]

Me too

[@MotivacaoActiva]

Eu tambem

[@25nomind]

First time I saw this store was on the tv show Highlander where it was often showed. Hope to visit it one day!

[@aalexxanderr]

Monsieur Shakespeare, Paris et la librairie, c'est une telle combinaison fabuleuse vraiment. Je pense que je vais devoir visiter Shakespeare and Company Quand je suis venu à Paris. Merci...

[@assadsalloum1975]

I just came back from Paris a few days ago. Wanted to check this place out but when I got there there was a 10 metre queue outside the shop to get in. Will try again next time!

[@DanielleOlavario]

That was an amazing video. :)

[@mohamedbou109]

Fantastic

[@isabelaoliveira9270]

Parece ser incrível. Meu sonho poder visitar esse lugar um dia

[@rogerfernandes3038]

Quem veio pelo storytelling deixa o like😊

[@monikalenz2559]

And if you can't get to Paris but find yourself on the central Oregon Coast of the US, there's a wonderfully quaint seaside hotel, The Sylvia Beach Hotel, that I recommend. Each room sports a theme of a well known author. I stayed in the Hemmingway room. The hotel has a very good restaurant and, for guests, an attic library in which to spend a cozy evening reading while listening to the ocean and watching the fog roll in.

[@onelovemon1784]

Monika I am going to go to the Sylvia someday. Because I came across your brilliant comment and suggestion and description. Thank you.

[@mjw12345]

Do all you can to support - this iconic place is in a dire situation with the lockdown. It's easy to access their website to make purchases.

[@lelamitchell9553]

First place I would to if I ever get to go to Paris!

[@Atlantic139]

You can feel the Shakespearien's time in this lovely place.

[@stonkinator]

This bookshop is the centre of the ( English ) literary universe. Without Sylvia Beach, James Joyce's Ulysses would never have been finished or published.

[@llywrch7116]

Yes, the bookstore published Joyce's Ulysses, & he screwed them out of their share of the income. Not all great artists are angels. Glad to see it's still in business.

[@bibliotecaretro]

they do have a coffe shop now 2:50

[@bjmartinphotography]

Well done. Hi from San Francisco!

[@1godlessmonkey]

Before Sunset told me about this place.

[@palomaoliveira8861]

Eu tô vendo um vídeo que tava em um livro. Viver no futuro é bom demais da conta

[@raissamaia5193]

estava no livro storytelling né?

[@joshfriesen1981]

And being in amongst that shop is my idea of heaven.

[@xiilvi]

Es un lugar que conoceré SI o SI en algún momento. #Sueños

[@kiriskip46]

Is the bookstore still there ....2022

[@jakevader93]

I'm so distracted by her beauty, that I had to watch it again in order to understand what she was saying.

[@upjoey]

did anyone who know what is the background music in the beginning ? thanks in advance!

[@Mloofylicious]

Such an amazing woman, and a breathtaking, bohemian bookshop. The writer in me wants do reading and meet the owner, the other part of me wants to ask the owner of the place is financially sustainable, if they earn enough for living.

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

What is bohemian about it?

[@kroovyandcal]

Plus pretty. Plus smart. Plus pretty.

[@Rex80123]

Does anyone have a link on where I can find the song on the piano at the intro? Thanks.

[@cockchaferpilot]

woha, this green typewriter at 2:20 is my typewriter!!!

[@glennwilliams6522]

Tom Wolfe Too late. I nicked it seconds after the video was made. Je ne regrette rien. Sorry mate!

[@dylanlawless1]

Ironic seeing the Walt Whitman books there, he was a big Shakespeare authorship questioner. Is this lady his grand daughter?

[@jamesforrester2876]

How on earth do I get a job working for you?

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

Maybe be less desperate

[@Kanad7]

Which Metro line do you get to this bookstore?

[@nanasshi0711]

she's so pretty

[@malcolmthompson9848]

I lived in Paris for 6 months in 1986 doing archival work for my PhD. . As bookshops went it was fine but located anywhere but in Paris across from ND it would have been unremarkable. It was full of the most pretentious American Ivy leaguers doing a semester abroad. I recall one eighteen year old co-ed asking a twenty-something self-styled bohemian in the store when he would get around to reading her memoir.

[@LoFiRecoverySoundscapes]

In a place where others have found beauty, friendship and inspiration, you found irritation. To totally bastardize what Lucrezia Borgia once said: To the Evil, everything is evil.

[@RazzAselvatica]

Title music soundtrack?

[@alpertroncp2198]

How long has Claire Skinner (the mum in Outnumbered) owned a bookshop by?

[@BoiledOctopus]

Sylvia is very very cute. I have been there before actually but don't remember seeing her. Damn.

[@stefens6588]

Do anybody know the first instrumental song title?

[@rykson161]

You all forgot about the store already ? Fraudulent charges!! 2019 .. SATURDAY 30th NOV I WAS JUST THERE ! took a few pictures of Aggie the cat . Lovely place ! I will go sleep tonight there !!!!

[@Coryweavable]

RIP George.

[@pincopalino3378]

Books are my friends and my family but by Krist I've had such destructive fights with my family and wrecksit (brexit) erstwhile friends in this last year that books are all I've got and all I want left.

[@EnigmaAgent]

I love how posh birds talk, totally kinky.

[@bluetoad2001]

this is where i should live.

[@dididylan-pena6597]

😍😍😍😍

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[@Screenwriting]

She is to men what her bookstore is to bibliophiles: The epitome, the dream, the fantasy.

[@eclecticreader961]

I'm not taken by her appearance. I don't understand what all the fuss is about lol.

[@Screenwriting]

I don't think we can be friends.

[@MotivacaoActiva]

Estou aqui por storytelling

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[@bobzilla211]

been there when i was a kid and george was still running it. lovely old shop but it does seem to have been colonised by hipsters lately.

[@lesliesun2298]

Very nice video! Can i reprint your works to Chinese website, we will indicate the author and your tubing address. We have a theoretical propaganda video about bookstores and the construction of spiritual civilization. We would like to quote the 4s picture in your video about Shakespeare Bookstore. We do not use it for commercial purposes. Sorry for any interruptions, thank you!

[@Goghahahahahaeej]

Please please tell me that this didn't burn in the fire with notre dam

[@eastsidetrader]

It is on the other side of the river.

[@Goghahahahahaeej]

@@eastsidetrader oh thank God

[@dlarstein]

Sylvia Beach was British, not American.

[@Extys]

Sylvia Beach was an American expatriate from New Jersey.

[@rolandsievers1610]

Joyce called her Silvia Bitch....

[@louisadrury613]

@@Extys - No, from Baltimorem MD

[@Stoney-Jacksman]

Hahaha 'bohemian'..

[@jamaicasky]

I had to stop watching cause a the music sorry

[@solarplexus4003]

Will the EU Elite and Macron start sensuring what we can read?