12 Rue de l'Odéon

Sylvia Beach's original Shakespeare and Company, the bookshop and lending library that published Joyce's Ulysses. With no money for books, Hemingway borrowed them here, and Beach told him to take as many as he liked. The shop closed in 1941 and a plaque marks the façade; the Shakespeare and Company by the Seine is a later shop.

More A Moveable Feast places nearby

• Jardin du Luxembourg (Musée du Luxembourg)5 min400 m away · 5 min on foot
• Bouquinistes (Quai des Grands-Augustins)7 min500 m away · 7 min on foot
• Brasserie Lipp7 min550 m away · 7 min on foot

Famous places nearby

Not places of the story, but worth the walk.

• Sainte-Chapelle

  9 min670 m away · 9 min on foot

  A royal chapel whose upper level is walled almost entirely with stained glass.

• Notre-Dame Cathedral

  11 min860 m away · 11 min on foot

  Linked to the story

  In 'People of the Seine' Hemingway walks the quays with Notre-Dame and the Île de la Cité opposite.

• Louvre Museum

  14 min1.1 km away · 14 min on foot

  Linked to the storyticket needed

  In 'A False Spring' Hemingway and Hadley walk home through the Louvre gateway and look back at its dark bulk.

From other stories, nearby

• Le PolidorMidnight in Paris2 min170 m away · 2 min on foot
• Église Saint-SulpiceThe Da Vinci Code4 min290 m away · 4 min on foot
• Le RostandParis, je t'aime5 min370 m away · 5 min on foot
• Café de FloreEmily in Paris7 min510 m away · 7 min on foot

Where to eat nearby

• Polidor

  2 min170 m away · 2 min on foot

  bistro€€

  Bistro dating to 1845 where Hemingway dined; seen in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris

• Le Procope

  3 min240 m away · 3 min on foot

  classic French€€

  Revival of the 1686 café Voltaire frequented; coq au vin in 18th-century-style rooms

• Bouillon Racine

  4 min260 m away · 4 min on foot

  classic French€€

  1906 Art Nouveau dining hall, restored in 1996 and listed as a historic monument