"There are about 20 customers with us who’ve sat here for hours calling home," Lye continued. "I haven’t seen anything but police cars go by, and people stumbling out of bars in central Paris who clearly have no idea what is going on."
On a wistful note, Lye told the paper, "The lights of Notre Dame have been turned off, which never happens at this time of night."
Author Jamie Ford, who recently visited the store, was one of many to tweet about Shakespeare and Company. He told The Huffington Post: "There's a communal spirit about that place, so the idea that they would take in strangers (in need or otherwise) wasn't a huge surprise, but was definitely a much needed reminder of how beautiful humanity can be on a terrible night."
Below is the bookstore photographed by Ford last month. The sign above the doorway, a quote that Whitman attributed to Yeats but was actually a take on a Bible passage, had plenty of resonance Friday night.
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