Shakespeare and Company (bookstore)

The antiquarian books front of Shakespeare and Company lit up at night on Rue de la Bûcherie in Paris, across the Seine from Notre-Dame, with a reader on a chair outside. George Whitman opened it in 1951 as Le Mistral and renamed it in April 1964 after Sylvia Beach's original Shakespeare and Company, which closed during World War II. It is an English-language bookstore that still lets young writers sleep in the shop in return for helping out, and around 30,000 of these Tumbleweeds have stayed over the years.