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Shopping in Paris

Shopping in Paris rarely means just buying things. The Place Vendôme draws a precise line between desire and reality with its octagonal plan and jewellery houses — simply walking its perimeter is its own kind of pleasure. The Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen to the north operates on an entirely different logic: Europe's largest flea market layers decades on top of each other and rewards those who arrive early without a list. Nearby, the restored department store La Samaritaine — its glass facade returned to the Seine riverbank — recalls an era when Paris believed a single building could contain the entire world's goods. And Rue Mouffetard shows what a market street can still be when it refuses to be merely picturesque.

10 places · Paris, France · Editorially curated