Historic Shops — Paris
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Eataly
Ship home authentic Roman specialties — guanciale, pecorino, and more.
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