Dear Customers,
Website orders and inquiries are processed from Monday to Friday.
Books listed on the website are not necessarily in stock at the bookshop and need to be ordered.
Thank you for your understanding
Chers clients,
Les commandes de la librairies sont traitées du Lundi au Vendredi.
Les livres répertoriés sur le site ne sont pas forcément en stock à la librairie et doivent être commandés.
Merci pour votre compréhension

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Events & Podcasts
La Poésie est morte, Vive la Poésie !
Lex Paulson on Cicero
Pulitzer Prizewinner Hernan Diaz!
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
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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
La Poésie est morte, Vive la Poésie !
Lex Paulson on Cicero
Pulitzer Prizewinner Hernan Diaz!
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