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Jean-Paul Hévin

 231 rue Saint Honoré Paris 75001 Métro: Concorde/Tuileries 3 rue Vavin Paris 75006 Métro: Vavin 23 bis avenue de la Motte Picquet Paris 75007 Métro: Ecole Militaire

Jean-Paul Hévin has been wowing chocophiles since he opened his first shop on the Ave de La Motte Picquet in 1988. Since then he's added two others, and at all of them you’ll find some of the city's finest chocolate—Hévin is a fanatic for the quality of his ingredients—transformed into some of the most imaginative shapes in town. The upper level of the rue Saint Honoré shop is a bar à chocolat, serving unusual chocolate treats at different times of day, including a chocolate cocktail.

Bobbi Brown

 1 bis rue des Francs-Bourgeois Paris 75003

American cosmetics star Brown has just opened her first boutique in Paris, on the main shopping street in the Marais.

Le Bon Marché

 24 rue de Sèvres Paris 75007

Founded in 1852, it’s the oldest of the major department stores, and the only one on the Left Bank, now owned by luxury goods group LVMH and catering to an upmarket crowd, with cutting-edge designer labels and custom-made suits for men.

Christian Lacroix

 2-4 place Saint Sulpice Paris 75006

The former couturier is back with a new boutique in Paris, where a small but opulent collection of accessories and housewares is displayed in a minimalist decor: colorful totes and silk scarves, Jackie O-style sunglasses and over-the-top necklaces, throw pillows, carafe-and-goblet sets and scented candles. No plans for a women's clothing label yet, but a raffish menswear line occupies a corner of the shop. 1/2013

Georges & Co.

 138 quai de Jemmapes 75010 Paris

The lustrous shop on the boutique-lined rue du Bac is devoted to the highest-quality contemporary materials manufactured in France and Europe for correspondence, diary-keeping, calligraphy, announcements, invitations and anything else that involves writing by hand. There’s an “ink bar” with refillable bottles in a rainbow of colors, a section for deluxe leather goods—notebooks, diaries, agendas, address books—and a tempting array of pens, elegant paper and envelopes in various weights and colors.

Guerlain

 68 ave des Champs-Elysées Paris 75008

The beautiful original shop of the classic perfume and cosmetics house, opened in 1914 and renovated several years ago, with an upstairs hallway entirely covered in gold mosaic and a crystalline perfume fountain for refilling your flacons. There’s also an excellent beauty institute.

Petrossian

 18 blvd de Latour-Maubourg Paris 75007

The chic caviar restaurant and emporium carries not only beluga, ossetra, sevruga or Alverta Royal caviars, but also czar-cut salmon, king crab and even vodka chocolate pearls.

Musée d’Orsay

 62 Rue de Lille Paris 75007 Métro: Solférino.

The renowned national museum housed in a Belle Epoque railroad station brilliantly transformed by architect Gae Aulenti, focused on Western art from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, including the Impressionists, Manet, Van Gogh and Gauguin. Closed Mon.

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.

Galerie Patrice Trigano

 4 bis rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris 75006 Métro: St-Germain-des-Prés

Modern and contemporary art, offering works by Botero, Derain, Hartung, César, Arman, Hundertwasser, Red Grooms and Magdelena Abakanowicz.

Musée des Arts décoratifs

 107 rue de Rivoli Paris 75001 Métro: Tuileries.

A fashion and fabric museum that is part of the semi-private museum group Les Arts Décoratifs, installed in a wing of the Louvre.

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.
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