PUBLIC HOLIDAY OPENING HOURS IN MAY:
Monday May 1st - CLOSED
Monday May 8th - Open as usual
Thursday May 18th - CLOSED
Monday May 29th - CLOSED
HORAIRES D'OUVERTURES POUR LES JOURS FERIES DU MOIS DE MAI :
Lundi 1er mai - FERMÉ
Lundi 8 mai - Ouvert aux horaires habituels
Jeudi 18 mai - FERMÉ
Lundi 29 mai - FERMÉ

Independent Bookstore
Events & Podcasts
Pulitzer Prizewinner Hernan Diaz!
Lex Paulson on Cicero
Dolly Alderton Signing!
“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
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Friends of...
Shakespeare and Company
is a nonprofit—created in response to the pandemic and its financial consequences—to support the bookshop’s noncommercial activities, including our free author events, first-floor library, weekly podcast, and writers’ rooms, with views on Notre-Dame, where more than 30,000 poets and authors have stayed the night gratis in Paris since 1951.
Events
BBC World Book Club: Marie Darrieussecq
Festival America
History

“I created this bookstore like a man would write a novel, building each room like a chapter, and I like people to open the door the way they open a book, a book that leads into a magic world in their imaginations.”
— George Whitman