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Stop 3 of 9 on The Left Bank: Thinkers, Drinkers & Dreamers
12 Rue de l'Odéon — Sylvia Beach
Latin Quarter, Paris
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"Find number twelve, rue de l'Odéon — Oh-day-on. There's no bookstore here anymore. Just a doorway, apartments, and a plaque you'd walk past in a hurry. In nineteen twenty-two, this address published the most important novel of the twentieth century, because nobody else on Earth had the nerve."
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The Reveal
This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.
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