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Galerie Daniel Templon

 30 rue Beaubourg, Paris 75003 Métro: Rambuteau

A contemporary gallery featuring established and up-and-coming artists.

Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle

 Jardin des Plantes, 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Paris 75005 Métro: Censier-Daubenton.

A natural history museum first established in the 18th century, famed for its dinosaur hall and its Grande Galerie de l’Evolution, a Noah’s Ark display of thousands of animal species. Closed Tues.

Musée Gustave Moreau

 14 rue de La Rochefoucauld Paris 75009 Métro: Trinité

A small museum in the former home of the 19th-century Symbolist artist. Closed Tues.

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.

Jamin Puech

 61 rue d’Hauteville Paris 10th

Handbag designers Benoît Jamin and Isabelle Puech opened their first boutique in 1996 after designing bags for Chanel, Balmain and Karl Lagerfeld, and their bags quickly became hallmarks for the fashion set. The fanciful limited-edition bags are handmade in leather, raffia or embroidered fabric, with decoration in all-natural materials—wood, seeds, horn, bone, shells and beads. Several shops in Paris (check our listings) including this inventory boutique for bargain-hunters.

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.

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.

Galerie Downtown

 33 rue de Seine, Paris 75006 Métro: Odéon

François Laffanour specializes in 20th-century European and American furniture and decorative arts, including works by Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier.
Artgato

Artgato

 5 ave du Docteur Arnold Netter Paris 75012

Specialized in the art of le gateau, with kitchen accessories for professional and amateur dessert and pastry chefs, including silicone Eiffel Tower cake molds.

Hod

 104 rue Vieille du Temple Paris 3rd Métro: Filles du calvaire

Hod is a kind of jewelry collective that offers handpicked pieces from fashion-savvy designers covering all the fashion bases. The current rage for delicate styles to mix and match is well represented, with necklaces, bracelets and rings dangling semiprecious stones, pearls or diamonds. The boutique’s own line—called Doh—includes stylish diamond rings gently priced at $300 to $600. Other offerings include scarves, bags and belts.

Jean-Jacques Dutko

 4 rue de Bretonvilliers, Paris 75004 Métro: Sully-Morland and 11 rue Bonaparte, Paris 75006 Métro: St. Germain des Prés

As well as his original gallery on the Left Bank, Art Deco and Art Modernes pecialist Dutko has also opened a big new space on the Ile Saint Louis, both designed by star architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. On the roster: Pierre Chareau, Paul Dupré-Lafon, Jean-Michel Frank, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Marino Marini.

Musée Carnavalet

 16 rue des Francs-Bourgeois Paris 3rd Métro Saint Paul or Chemin Vert

The city’s fascinating museum of Paris history, installed in two adjoining 16th- and 17th-century mansions in the Marais district, one of them the former home of Madame de Sévigné. Closed Mon.
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