A MALE BASTION WHERE WOMEN ARE WELCOME AND THINK OF THEIR BROTHERS
Behind a dark window and a door that is often closed, another universe:
Galerie du jouet ancien
8 rue des Grands-Augustins
No web site or Internet comments:
Most visitors are collectors,
but the proprietor welcomes whoever pushes open his door.
Little boys loved these well-made toys (toward 1935-75) :
"The assassination of Heydrich:" That the sole assassination of a top Nazi official should have taken place in a car led this toy-making company recall it:
Reinhard Heydrich, Protektor of Moravia and Bohemia and a director of the Holocaust, was mortally wounded when the Resistance attacked him in his car (on May 27, 1942).
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Standardization does not challenge toys that have become antiques and the boutique has doubled in size.
The founder in the shop's new room (in 2019)
But that is an exception.
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