THE NEXT STREET IS A POINT OF DEPARTURE: ANTIQUARIANS CLUSTER ON ALL OF THEM
(RUE DE BEAUNE)
Come upon signs for "Carré Rive Gauche" (the name for the hundred antiquarians)
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Among their shops...
- A glimpse of the Old Régime
Laurent Chalvignac Antiquités
33 rue de Lille
(At the crossroad of rues de Beaune and de Lille)
For the man with the red bow, please click.
- Some continuations
Gabrielle Laroche
12 et 17 rue de Beaune, 25 rue de Lille
www.gabrielle-laroche.com
Amélie Laroche heads the establishment of her mother, Gabrielle Laroche. "Antiquarians often transmit their professions to their children," she said when I remarked that a number of shops seemed inherited. That too is a trace of pre-industrial times, when almost everyone continued their parents' profession.
Six months later
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- A view of Asia
Sinapango
23 rue de Beaune
www.cristina.ortega.com
Cushions made of obi, the sumptuous sashes of Japan
"How did you come to open a boutique devoted to Asia ?" I asked the owner. "I visited San Francisco's Chinatown as a little girl and fell in love with its colors." (As in the 13th's "Chinatown." )
- Canes, dandy's ultimate accessory
18 rue de Beaune
The Traveller Looks over a Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich, vers 1817 / zoom
Another example of transmission: The book is by the owner's mother.
Most of the Carré Rive Gauche boutiques
merit a page to themselves.
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