I went to Paris a couple of months ago and spent some time in the fantastical bookshop, Shakespeare & Company, which has been going since the Fifties - and is a literary bohemia. Aspiring writers stay there for free, they have since its inception, and it's right opposite the Notre Dame:
I wrote about it for The Independent - find the article in the magazine today.
Lovely piece in the Indy Mag - heartening to know places like that still exist.
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