-- Parisian Shopping Streets
Outdoor Roving Markets
and Flea Markets
Here what you have happened upon is my shopping street and nearby-points-of-interest itinerary for my next Paris adventure. I shall print this out for myself and put it in my small backpack/purse. And perhaps, if you are as strange as I (and cheap, and interested in Sarah Bernhardt ), perhaps, just perhaps, this page might be of value to you, too. Sarahphile (Sarahdoteur) Shopping in Paris, aka SarahdoTeurism
Parisian Shopping Streets
Streets that appeared repeatedly in the LES PAGES JAUNES/LES PAGES BLANCHES while searching for Antiques/Brocante/Junque shops I'd be interested in:
Rue Bonaparte, Rue Jacob, Rue de Seine, pl Palais Royal, pl Vosges, bd Voltaire, quai Voltaire, r Fbg St Honoré, r Verneuil, bd St Germain, La Motte Picquet
Streets packed with boutiques, antiques, galleries and book shops...or The Street Where Frasier and Niles Would Live:
Rue de Sèvres, Rue Bonaparte, Rue de Four, Rue St-Sulpice, Rue Jacob, and the Rue de Seine
If you're a tea service freak like me:
Galerie 88 TEA ROOMS 88 quai Hôtel de Ville 75004
Restaurants du Bon Marché TEA ROOMS 38 r Sèvres 75007
Les Marchés
aux Puces (Flea Markets) --
or Where Niles and Frasier Wouldn't be Caught Dead
I referred to the treasures in my home (my "antique" Queen Anne sideboard,
and dining table with six chairs from Scotland; my cherry china cabinet with
wooden wheels from England; my collection of pink Depression Glass; etc.)
as "Junque" [ZHUH AHHHHNK] for years. Until Veronique, whom I hope never loses
her enchanting French accent, told me that brocante means basically
"second-hand" or as I like to say, "previously treasured".
Voila! I can now say my home is done in brocante [BRO CAAAH].
Thanks, Veronique; Flea Market Mary now takes pride in sounding ever so cultured!
I absolutely admit I'm strange, but I love my crackled white-with-blue-flowers second-hand stoneware milk pitcher I got in Belgium (for a song) in a tiny, quaint, dusty shop more than any packaged lace amongst Belgian key chains, and snow-globes at a souvenir shop.
My favorite souvenirs from
my 1996 Paris trip are my photos of the wildlife at the Clignancourt Flea
Market/Marché aux Puces.* 
People-watching at French Marche aux Puces is just as fun for me as at American
flea markets. Once past Clignancourt's Jim Morrison and Bob Marley wall hangings,
military surplus, and into the 
Marché Brion (corner Rue des Rossiers) and the Paul Bert Market, (16 rue Paul
Bert) there was treasure after treasure. Heady ANTIQUES and delightful brocante.
Tight-budgeted, I couldn't do much but be enthralled by the goodly stuff,
but enthralled I was. I have memories of the experience and photos. We also
have a COOL worn leather jacket, a vintage violet (our daughters' middle names
are both Violet) postcard written in French, and some vintage stamps purchased
for a pittance...
*Clignancourt Flea Market
Ave Michelet at Rue des Rossiers, Sat-M dawn-7 p.m., M=Porte de Clignancourt
Acres of the most famous flea market in France, once you get past the cheap
trash
Aligre Flea Market
Placed'Aligre, Tues-Sun until 1 p.m., M=Ledru-Rollin
Montruil Flea Market
Porte de Montreuil, Sat-M 9-6, M=Porte de Montreuil
Once you get past cheap trash vendors on the bridge
Vanves Flea Market
Porte-de-Vanves, Sat & Sun 9-7, M=Porte-de-Vanves
The locals' market, more manageable than Clignancourt
Shopping Streets
Rue de Buci, M=St-Germain-des-Pres
Rue Cler (Rick Steves'
favorite), M=Ecole Militaire 
Rue Lepic, M=Abbesses 
Rue Mouffetard, M=Monge
Lovely photo of Rue Mouffetard, supplied by LES PAGES JAUNES/LES PAGES BLANCHES
Rue Mouffetard
shops are definitely cheesy...which can be good! Sometimes you WANT a pair
of tacky Eiffel Tower earrings - for Christmas ornaments.
Outdoor Roving Markets
Dupleix, W & Sun, M=Dupleix
or La Morte-Oicquet-Grenelle
Cours la Reine, W & Sat, M=Alma-Marceau or Iena
I love Paris in the Springtime
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