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- Historic Chocolate & Confectionery Shop
À la Mère de Famille
Paris's oldest chocolate and confectionery shop, trading from the same rue du Faubourg Montmartre address since 1761, its painted 19th-century shopfront protected as a historic monument.
- Historic Candle Maker
Cire Trudon
The world's oldest candle manufacturer, founded in 1643 and once official candle-maker to the French royal court and Napoleon, still hand-pouring scented candles from its rue de Seine boutique.
- Taxidermy & Curiosities Cabinet
Deyrolle
A rue du Bac cabinet of curiosities founded in 1831, one of the world's oldest taxidermy houses, its first-floor gallery lined with mounted animals, insect collections and antique natural history charts.
- Professional Cookware Shop
E. Dehillerin
A professional kitchen-supply shop near Les Halles, trading since 1820, whose crowded shelves of copper pans and carbon-steel knives have outfitted generations of French chefs and home cooks alike.
- Historic Department Store
Galeries Lafayette Haussmann
The 1912 Haussmann flagship department store, its neo-Byzantine glass-and-steel dome one of Paris's most spectacular hidden interiors, crowning a shopping destination that draws millions of visitors a year.
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Le Bon Marché
Founded in 1852 by Aristide Boucicaut, widely credited as the world's first modern department store, its Gustave Eiffel-engineered atrium still anchors the Left Bank's most elegant shopping address.
- Antiques & Flea Market
Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen
The world's largest antiques market, sprawling across the northern edge of Paris since the late 19th century, when ragpickers and secondhand dealers were pushed beyond the city's old fortifications.
- Concept Store
Merci
A boulevard Beaumarchais concept store opened in 2009 by the founders of children's brand Bonpoint, its entire profits donated to charity, mixing design, fashion, books and a garden café.
- Market Street
Rue Cler
A pedestrianised market street near the Eiffel Tower and Champ de Mars, its cheesemongers, butchers, fishmongers and greengrocers giving visitors a compact, ready-made taste of everyday Parisian food shopping.
- English-Language Bookshop
Shakespeare and Company
An English-language bookshop facing Notre-Dame, opened in 1951 by George Whitman as spiritual heir to Sylvia Beach's original 1919 shop, which first published James Joyce's Ulysses.