MEDALS AND SABERS SET THE TONE UNDER THE GARDENS' ARCADES
(START WITH GALÉRIE MONTPENSIER ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE GARDENS IF YOU COME FROM THE LOUVRE)
La Galerie numismatique
N°s 4-5 Galerie Montpensier
Next door, an establishment present since 1790
Baqueville
Since 1790
N°s 6-7-8
Then...
La Maison de l'Ambre
N° 15 
Didier Ludot
N°s 20-24
Vintage, since 1974
...and a gallery of Primal Arts that from 1993 to 2024, showed works worthy of a museum...
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Galérie Ivana Dmitrie
N° 36
...then, for change, in 2024 opened a temporary exhibit of 20th century mechanical toys to collect or decorate:
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Under the arcades on the other side of the garden (galerie Valois) used to be "Delage," for handbags, belts and shoes made by hand in France. Not seeing the name among the Palais-Royal boutiques mentioned on the web, I thought it had gone as others had. But before suppressing the images, I passed by to see what had replaced it.
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"We're the same! With a workshop and seven craftspeople in Brittany!" said the cheerful owners who greeted me:
François Croze and Jean-François Célaerio
Délage, now Bégum
N° 15
Compare prices with those of a mass-produced brand in 2019, shown above.
"One has to re-register à company every ten years, and we forgot. Another company took our name and tried to sell it back to us. So we changed it."
The shop is a superb exception
to the standardized production
that invades the gardens.
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