Stratford-on-Odéon was both a literary circle and

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's affectionate nickname for the Rue de l'Odéon in

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, its two

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Adrienne Monnier Adrienne Monnier (26 April 1892 – 19 June 1955) was a French bookseller, writer, and publisher, and an influential figure in the modernist writing scene in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Formative years Monnier was born in Paris on 26 April 1 ...

's ''La Maison des Amis des Livres'' and

Sylvia Beach Sylvia Beach (14 March 1887 – 5 October 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and World W ...

's Shakespeare and Company; Monnier and Beach thought of it as '' Odéonia'') and the "coterie of emergent Anglophone writers surrounding them".

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Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an List of poets from the United States, American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Ita ...

Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and ...

and F. Scott Fitzgerald were among the famous writers who comprised "Stratford-on-Odéon". Monnier offered advice and encouragement when Beach founded her bookstore in 1919 at 8 rue Dupuytren within close propinquous distance in the arrondissemont to Monnier's own. In 1921 Shakespeare and Company was relocated in rue de l'Odéon and Joyce pounced with his sobriquet. During the 1920s, the shops owned by Beach and Monnier were located across from each other. Both bookstores became gathering places for French, British, and American writers. By sponsoring readings and encouraging informal conversations among authors and readers, the two women brought to bookselling a domesticity and hospitality that encouraged friendship as well as cultural exchange. Joyce used Shakespeare and Company as his office. Beach published James Joyce's '' Ulysses'' in 1922. The store and its literary inhabitants are mentioned in Hemingway's 1964 posthumously published memoir ''

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''. It became a hub for British and American modernists. Their meeting place could not effectively continue during the German occupation of Paris, World War II.

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