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Remembering Sylvia Beach, founder of Paris's Shakespeare and Company
Original: Sylvia Beach, who died OTD in 1962, founded the Shakespeare and Company book store on the Left Bank in # Paris https://
Sylvia Beach, the American bookseller who founded the legendary Shakespeare and Company bookstore on Paris's Left Bank, died on this day in 1962. Beach is remembered for publishing James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922 and for making her shop a hub of the Lost Generation writers. Anniversaries like this prompt travelers and literary fans to share her story and revisit the famous store.
Why now: The anniversary of Beach's death is prompting remembrances of her role in Parisian literary history.
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- Sylvia Beach, who died OTD in 1962, founded the Shakespeare and Company book store on the Left Bank in # Paris https:// cromwell-intl.com/travel/franc e/flaneur-seine-banks/?s=mb # travel # history · bobthetraveler@mastodon.world · 2
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