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Paris has always been a must stop for major literary figures. Living in the City of Light and writing in its cafes, the most emblematic of which is the Café de Flore, in bohemian Saint-Germain, is almost an integral part of the biography of every writer or aspiring writer. Thus, in the interwar period of the last century, the Lost Generation formed in Paris, a group of American creators who, led by Ernst Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, settled in the French capital and shook the foundations of world literature. The group’s main meeting place was the bookstore Shakespeare & Co., founded by Sylvia Bach and has since become a true book-lover’s paradise, housing tens of thousands of volumes.