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Founder of famous Paris bookstore dies at 98 (AP)

FILE - This Wednesday, June 1, 2011, file photo shows the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. Shakespeare & Company says, George Whitman, the founder of the iconic English-language Paris bookshop, has died. He was 98 years old. Nestled on the left bank of the Seine River, Shakespeare & Company is a veritable warren of books, stacked with volumes from floor to ceiling. It has long been known as a haven for writers and would-be writers, whom Whitman often allowed to crash in the store. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)AP - George Whitman's life was packed with the type of adventures that filled every nook and cranny of his bookshop, Paris' iconic English-language Shakespeare and Company.

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