a favourite Paris address

How I enjoyed this post on this cold, damp Seattle Monday morning. Merci Sharon! I used to work at the American Express flagship office located right behind l'Opéra Garnier and would often venture to le Passage Jouffroy during my [generous] lunch break. You brought back many happy memories. A magical place it still is. Bonne semaine et merci, Sharon! Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)

Le Nain Bleu is also a fabulous toy shop but this establishment looks fantastique! I also encountered a wonderful shop in Nice but cannot recall the name. So lovely to meet you! Anita

Would love to go to Paris, i've never been. Those places look and sound wonderful… Somedayyyyy…

I love those pics so.

Favoloso !!!
questo post mi sarà molto utile prossimamente….
grazie per l'indirizzo di negozio.
A presto, a Parigi!!!!
Giò

Would love to Pin photos of this post so I can remember where to go the next time I'm in Paris…
May I have your permission, please?

Judith

How totally chaarming! I could get lost in such a magical little shop. Sharon you have unleased a monster in me with your post on round food….you totally inspired me THAT DAY to go buy small round molds and I have been on a "round kick" ever since. My family thinks I have "lost it" with the amounts of things i am making. So thank you (I think lol)!

I would go crazy, c-r-a-z-y-y-y-y, in a shop like this! Beautifully-crafted miniatures; precious one-of-a-kind or unique little treasures. Heaven. There are some incredible reproduction vintage toys out there but it takes some hunting. Last year or so, I got a small doll with clothes in a petite box which was touted as a complete replication of one found in the Paris antique shops and I believe it; the detail was amazing and the price was affordable.

Thank you for such an interesting post, Sharon. I'm sharing it with a friend of mine who travels in Europe annually, always seeking the out-of-the-way or lesser-known highways and byways. It's a tuckaway for me; the ever-lov'in bucket list. I was in Paris a lifetime ago, too young and distracted by love and also bronchitis-bordering-on-pneumonia from previous weeks of travel, with not enough time in the city. My dream is to return, with a month(s) stretching ahead and a fistful of articles like yours for the must-sees…as well as the yet-unfinished, proper city tour of France's jewel.

May I just share something totally unrelated and fun, one fellow dog lover to another? I was driving in a good-sized residential quarter of town this morning, early, with sun breaking over a 34-degree (Farenheit) frosted world (unusual for us here on West Coast USA although it is January after all!), I stopped at a stop sign and saw ahead down the road a skinny dog off to the side who, although tentative, seemed to zero in on me and my car. I decided to just stay stopped and see what he/she would do (I felt I must do something; she looked lost). The dog came directly (without one word or motion from me)…at a glad gallop, I might add… and propped long front legs on my car door, covering my face with kisses thru the open car window as if I were long-lost human Mommy! I didn't know what to think as there was not one soul out on this crisp, icy morning just after 7am and a red sunrise. I figured she must be very cold as she was a short-haired animal, so was about to put her in my car to try to find the owner, as she (it was a SHE!) had a collar, but at that moment here flew a nightgown-robed woman out her front door, arms flailing, face beet red and hair a bird's nest, shouting, "Daisy, Daisy, Daisy come here!" Apparently her new neighbor's dog had gotten out of the fenced yard, not outdoors-savvy…and innocently, without fear will go up to anybody (which could be good or bad depending upon circumstances) as she is a sweetheart canine…entirely unfamiliar as yet with her surroundings (two blocks away is a busy highway, which would have been dangerous). So, I was involved in a mini-"rescue" of, of all things, a Greyhound-rescue dog. I had read before that the fate of a racing Greyhound can be tragic once retired and that they are lovely dogs to adopt. I can now attest to it, as I would have kept this quiet, well-behaved, adorable, tender, gentle and graceful girl-dog in a heartbeat this morning! I've also read that they are actually undemanding pets and instead are couch potatoes in their retirement, glad I assume not to participate in the forced racing any longer.

She just made my day…

…after a horrible night of squealing rats trying to come through a roof air vent of my 90-year-old cottage (encased in nearly 200-year-old oak trees, which doesn't help the situation!), apparently wanting to escape the nighttime freeze. Actually, two got through, which had me screaming at 3am, with my dogs wildly trying to catch them down the hallway, Husband simply trying to wake up (how could he not, with all of the noise?!) and, well, it's been chaos and a shudder as I face the scour-down of my home after no sleep and needing my giant mug of black coffee just thinking of the creepy-crawly germs all over the place from large rodents. So gross. So unsanitary. Send in some hungry, feral cats, NOW and not tomorrow!

What a lovely little shop, I'm sure children would never want to leave this place! I've spent hours in toy stores with my grandkids who never get tired of looking and take great care before selecting anything. Ha

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Beautiful – the shops but more so, the building and architecture. Can't wait to visit! Alison

Ines de la Fressange featured it in one if her diary films on the Roger Vivier website a while ago.

Take a look…

Gorgeous!! I must add this to my Paris itinerary for later in the year! Thanks for sharing!

I adored this post + will bookmark for my next trip to Paris. xxpeggybraswelldesign.com