Stratford-on-Odéon

Stratford-on-Odéon was both a literary circle and James Joyce's affectionate nickname for the Rue de l'Odéon in Paris's Left Bank, its two bookstores (Adrienne Monnier's La Maison des Amis des Livres and Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company; Monnier and Beach thought of it as Odéonia[1]) and the "coterie of emergent Anglophone writers surrounding them".

[2][3][4] Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald were among the famous writers who comprised "Stratford-on-Odéon".

[7] In 1921 Shakespeare and Company was relocated in rue de l'Odéon and Joyce pounced with his sobriquet.

The store and its literary inhabitants are mentioned in Hemingway's 1964 posthumously published memoir A Moveable Feast.

Their meeting place could not effectively continue during the German occupation of Paris, World War II.