莎士比亞書店 (Shakespeare and Company)

Shakespeare and Company Paris. The original bookstore, which doubled as a library, publisher and boarding house for aspiring writers, was opened by American Sylvia Beach and was featured in Ernest Hemingway’s memoir, “A Moveable Feast”. The store closed during World War II, and was reopened in its in 1951 by George Whitman, whose daughter, Sylvia (named after Beach), runs things today. Out front, bookstands surround an ornate drinking fountain, erected in the 19th century to service the area’s poor. Inside, there’s an extensive stock of second-hand books.

• Librerie, le 10 più belle del mondo. Due sono italiane, la Repubblica.it, 28 marzo 2014