Le Mistral .....
Shakespeare And Company
37 rue de la Bucherie
Paris
...
arguably the most popular
bookshop in Paris
...
not the original bookstore
located first at
rue Dupuytren
and later at rue d l'Odeon
opened by Sylvia Beach
in 1919
until closing in 1941
during the German occupation.
...
the present bookstore was
originally named Le Mistral
by founder George Whitman
in 1951
and renamed
Shakespeare & Company
in 1964
homage to Sylvia Beach