Location: 8 RUE DUPUYTREN, 75006 PARIS, Paris.
Here in 1919, Sylvia Beach, an American from Baltimore, opened the very first Shakespeare and Company. Thanks to a small shop pointed out by Adrienne Monnier, she created a lending library specializing in English books. André Gide, Valéry Larbaud, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce became regulars. In 1921, success prompted her to move to 12 rue de l'Odéon.
Period recorded for this site: 20th century.
Theme: Writer.
Coordinates: 48.85090, 2.33840.
Other plaques within a few minutes' walk: Sylvia Beach, James Joyce (14 m); Thomas Paine (22 m); Adrienne Monnier (49 m); Lucile Desmoulins (60 m); Auguste Comte (63 m).