Local Craft & Artisan Shops — Paris
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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.
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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.
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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.