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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.
Dec 26, 2015 · Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier were bright lights of the Lost Generation in post-WWI Paris. Although they were very private about their personal lives, their romance inspired and sustained both of them in their literary careers.
Sep 8, 2020 · Adrienne Monnier was a writer, editor, publisher of small literary revues, and one of the first French women to open her own bookstore; “La Maison des Amis des Livres” (The House of Friends and Books) opened in 1915.
May 4, 2023 · After the War, Adrienne returned to her bookstore, but Sylvia did not reopen hers. In 1954, Adrienne became afflicted with a loud, incessant ringing in her ears. Within a year, she was dead, committing suicide rather than continuing to live with the torment.
The founding of Shakespeare and Company would not have happened if Sylvia Beach had not met another female bookseller in Paris, Adrienne Monnier. Upon her return to Paris in 1917, Beach came across Monnier’s shop, La Maison des Amis des Livres.
Nov 19, 2019 · “My loves were Adrienne Monnier and James Joyce and Shakespeare and Company,” wrote Sylvia Beach, whose legendary Parisian bookstore first opened its doors 100 years ago this month.
Apr 18, 2010 · But in Paris she met and fell in love with a bookstore owner, Adrienne Monnier, who would become, Ms. Walsh writes in her introduction, “her lifelong personal and professional partner.” (This...
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