Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
1 pl du Trocadéro et du 11 novembre Paris 16th Métro: Trocadéro
Occupying one wing of the Palais de Chaillot, this museum displays impressive, life-size models of the façades of cathedrals and other monuments on the ground floor, with upper floors devoted to medieval and Renaissance murals and stained-glass windows and modern and contemporary architecture. Also houses temporary exhibits. Closed Tue.Musée de la Vie Romantique
16 rue Chaptal Paris 9th Métro: Blanche, Saint-Georges, Pigalle
The small 19th-century home and garden of Romantic painter Ary Scheffer, with the artist’s paintings and charming mementos of his neighbors, the novelist George Sand and Chopin. Closed Mon.Les Crapoussines
39 rue Brochant Paris 17th
In the trendy Canal Saint Martin district, a shop where owner Anne Beaurain makes gorgeous hats, handbags, scarves and jewelry. This is the place for finding superb gifts, or for just spoiling yourself. Closed Sun-Mon.Maison de la Truffe
19 Place de la Madeleine Paris 75008
Has a superb tasting menu that offers tuber-based delicacies such as scallop carpaccio with Brumale truffles, and a shop for gourmet gifts including truffle-infused Armagnac.Cire Trudon
78 rue de Seine Paris 75006
A venerable candle-making business that dates to 1643, formerly an official supplier to the French court, now updated by trendy entrepreneur Ramdane Touhami, with 12 new scented candles that have fashionistas flocking.Colette
213 rue Saint Honoré Paris 75001
The first concept boutique in Paris, still cooler-than-thou, offering an eclectic selection of books, jewelry, trinkets, gadgets, cosmetics, scented candles, designer accessories and clothing for men and women.Galerie Ratton-Ladrière
11 quai Voltaire Paris 75007 Métro: Rue du Bac
Along with museum-quality medieval, Renaissance and Baroque painting, drawings and sculpture, this Left Bank gallery carries archaeological objects and primitive arts.Galerie Liova-Marc Perpitch
240 blvd St. Germain Paris 75007 Métro: Rue du Bac
Run by second-generation dealer Marc Perpitch, specializing in fine furniture, objets d’art and decorative elements of the Haute Epoque—medieval and Renaissance, 15th-early 17th centuries.Le Thé des Ecrivains
16 rue des Minimes Paris 75003
A tea emporium with beautifully packaged teas designed to be sipped while reading certain authors—Tea of the American Authors combines flavors of orange and bergamot with lime, Tea of the Chinese Philosophers is a blend of green and black teas spiked with poppy and lotus.Chocolaterie Jacques Genin
133 rue de Turenne Paris 75003
The city’s newest temple to chocolate, an elegant, two-level shop in the Marais, filled with such delights as Szechuan pepper ganache, éclairs au chocolat and mango-passionfruit caramels. There’s also a tea salon and upstairs glass-walled workshop where you can watch the chocolatiers in action.Galignani
224 rue de Rivoli Paris 75001
The city’s oldest English-language bookstore, founded in 1802, offering books in French and English on a wide range of subjects, as well as a extensive selection of art books and magazines.
Chalcographie du Louvre
Librairie-Boutiques of the Musée du Louvre Carrousel du Louvre Paris 75001 Métro: Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre
Some 13,000 prints from the Louvre's collection, printed on museum-quality paper. The most popular prints—botanical prints, maps of pre-and post-Haussmannian Paris, engravings of Napoleon's campaigns in Egypt, prints from the historic galleries of Versailles—are already in stock; others can be printed to order.