* The shop's website has a lovely tribute that you might want to see.
Shakespeare and Company
37 rue de la Bûcherie
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Samedi Signes - Tribute
* The shop's website has a lovely tribute that you might want to see.
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I totally went on discovery walk trying to find this store in my last visit. ... haha
One of my favorite places when I'm in Paris. So mythic!
It's a fabulous shot, V. How about that jacket and tie. It takes some verve to pull off an ensemble like that.
But this is not the Shakespeare & Co bookstore of Sylvia Beach and James Joyce et al.
It would be lovely to have a chat with him... 98 y.o., wow, that's an age to achieve!
God bless you!
Cezar
Shakespeare & Co was my refuge in my early years in Paris. Later, as I learned to read French Gibert Jeunne became my haunt but I walked past Shakespeare every day on my way home. If the weather was good George would often be standing at an open window on the floor above the shop, looking as he does on the poster
Wonder when that picture was taken? He looks like someone you would love to sit by at a dinner party! Thanks for a great post V!
JEff, Thanks for sharing that memory with all of us.
Shell, I love the get up.
Janey, I think you are so right he most certainly would.
Julie, yes, this was orginally name le Mistral and he later changed the name.
Cezar and Leila, I heard he died in his apt. over the shop. Visitors are allowed on the second floor and I have photos from there. I wondered where his apt . was.
Ara, I do hope you found it!
From the clothing alone, we can see that he must have been 'a character'--I'll bet he was a good storyteller! Do you know what will happen with the bookstore? Hopefully someone will keeping it going for another 60 years.
Very touching post. Shakespeare & Co has a lovely website indeed made with love and in style.
We've bought there a couple of classics paperbacks for our sons a few years ago stamped with a special logo as a souvenir.
George Whitman even named his only daughter Sylvia Beach after the founder of the original S&Co store. She continues the tradition running the shop.
I meant to thank you Virginia before posting the comment it accidentally slipped away...
Thankfully, his daughter has taken over the management so we don't have to worry about it closing anytime soon.
I loved George—he never minded that I was in there all the time, obviously to read the books when I was too poor to buy them.
Sounds like he was a lucky man Virginia, living to a good age and doing what the loved in Paris, can't be much better than that!!
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