Shakespeare and Company is an English - language bookshop in the heart of Paris. It     1     (be) a meeting place for writers and readers for almost seventy years.

In 1951, a bookshop     2     (name) Le Mistral was opened by George Whitman. It was renamed Shakespeare and Company in 1964     3     honor of a bookseller he admired, Sylvia Beach, who founded the     4     (origin) Shakespeare and Company in 1919. Beach's bookstore had been a gathering place for great writers of the time, including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Pound.

George's bookstore quickly became a center for literary life. From the first day, writers, artists, and intellectuals were invited     5     (sleep) for free among the shelves. Since then, an estimated 30, 000 people have stayed in the bookshop. Over the years, the shop     6     (gradual) grew. George said, “I     7     (create) this bookstore like a man would write a novel, building each room like     8     chapter, and I like people to open the door the way they open a book.”

Today George's novel, this bookshop, is still being written by George's child Sylvia, by a team of     9     (bookseller), and by the thousands of people     10     continue to read, write, and sleep at Shakespeare and Company.