In 1951, another English-language bookstore was opened on Paris's Left Bank by
American ex-serviceman George Whitman, under the name of Le Mistral.
Its premises was the site of a 16th-century monastery. In 1964, after Sylvia Beach's death, Whitman renamed his
store "Shakespeare and Company" in tribute to the original.
His daughter, Sylvia Beach Whitman joined him in
2003 at the age of 22 and continues to run the store in the same manner as her father, allowing young writers to live and work in the bookstore.
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