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My fellow tumbleweeds were a delight, as they always are. Visit the present-day Shakespeare & Company bookshop in Paris here, which by the way, in case I forgot to say, feels just as good as the original– even better at night. But after being here for up to four months I started coming for the fantastic company of the tumbleweeders and fellow volunteers where fun, fiction and fellowship is created. Keep up with evening readings, live music & events on their Facebook page. Shakespeare and Company is the name of two independent English-language bookstores that have existed on Paris's Left Bank.. When Woody Allen was filming the shop's cameo for Midnight in Paris, Colette kept getting in the shot, which made all the Shakespeare and Co employees very happy, until they noticed how mad Woody Allen was because the dog kept ruining his takes. The current Shakespeare and Co. follows in the tradition of the original store opened by Sylvia Beach in 1921. Colette, the store dog, up in the childrens' section with me. Shakespeare and Co.: How to sleep in Paris for free ... Usually, a tumbleweed is a dead plant rolling through the desert — but in Paris, being a tumbleweed is an aspiration. Read more about Molly’s experience as a Shakespeare & Co Tumbleweed on her blog.