Empreintes Paris
A four-floor concept store devoted to French métiers d’art, selling work straight from artisan makers.
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Le Grand Véfour
An 18th-century jewel under the Palais-Royal arcades, where Napoleon and Colette dined – refined haute cuisine.
La Maison Plisson
An ethical épicerie and café spotlighting small French producers and short, traceable supply chains.
Lapérouse
A romantic 1766 townhouse on the Seine with gilded private salons – a Paris legend, reborn for fine dining.
Shakespeare and Company
The fabled English-language bookshop opposite Notre-Dame, which still houses writers above the stacks.
Marché des Enfants Rouges
Paris’s oldest covered market (1615), full of small organic growers and local food stalls.
Marché d’Aligre
A lively daily street market with a secondhand brocante alongside the produce – local food and reuse.
Emmaüs
The charity-secondhand movement whose shops fund jobs and housing for people rebuilding their lives.
Free’P’Star
A cult Marais vintage store giving piles of secondhand clothing a cheap, cheerful second life.
Veja Store
The French sneaker label built on fair-trade Amazonian rubber and organic cotton, with in-store repairs.