MORE ANTIQUARIANS

THE NEXT STREET LEADS TO THE ANTIQUARIANS' NEIGHBORHOOD 

 

Take rue de Beaune.

Signs for "Carré Rive Gauche" (the name for the hundred antiquarians) appear along it.

They give a glimpse of the Old Regime...

               Laurent Chalvignac Antiquités                    For the man with the red bow, 

                            33 rue de Lille                               please click and scroll down.

Especially when they are inherited.

• "Antiquarians often transmit their professions to their children," Amélie Laroche said when I remarked that a number of shops seemed familia. 

Gabrielle Laroche

12 et 17 rue de Beaune, 25 rue de Lille

www.gabrielle-laroche.com

Six months later.

• Her mother's shop, which specializes in medieval and Renaissance sculpture, is across the street.

The shops are at 17 and 25 rue de Beaune.

That transmission is a trace of pre-industrial times, when almost everyone continued their parents' profession.

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Another inherited shop: Canes, dandy's ultimate accessory 

Galerie Jantzen

18 rue de Beaune

   Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich, toward 1817 / zoom

 The book is by the owner's mother. 

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Shops can have another specificity. For example:

Sinapango

23 rue de Beaune

www.cristina.ortega.com

Cushions made of obi, the sumptuous sashes of Japan. 

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Many Carré Rive Gauche boutiques

merit a page to themselves.

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"A neighborhood of impressive appearance 

and noble dwellings"