Atelier du Bracelet Parisien

 28 place du Marché Saint Honoré Paris 75001

A small shop specialized in watchbands and small leather goods in a large range of skins, styles and colors, both ready-to-wear and custom-made.

A la Mère de Famille

 35 rue du Faubourg Montmartre Paris 75009

The city's oldest candy shop has been in the same lovely chandelier-lit boutique since 1761. The shop's vintage feel, coupled with a modern mission, give an irresistible flavor to their chocolates, caramels, marshmallows and more.

Jamin Puech

 43 rue Madame Paris 6th

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 bobo—bourgeois bohemian—fashion set. The designers’ fanciful limited-edition bags are handmade in leather, raffia or embroidered fabric, with meticulous detailing and decoration in all-natural materials—wood, seeds, horn, bone, shells and beads. They’re fun, colorful and practical.

Le Bonbon au Palais

 19 rue Monge Paris 5th Métro: Cardinal Lemoine

Rainbow-hued candies, some 200 varieties from all over France, glisten like gemstones in apothecary jars in this dream of a boutique. Other Gallic treasures include light, fluffy guimauve, the square-cut French version of marshmallow; alcohol-filled chocolates covered in marzipan; lollipops in such flavors as blueberry, pineapple, quince and black cherry; and candied flower petals and herbs, including whole roses, violets, vervain, mint and lilac.

Moynat

 348 rue Saint Honoré Paris 1st Métro: Tuileries

Luxury behemoth LVMH acquired the venerable luggage company Moynat last year with the intention of revamping the once-iconic travel trunk-maker founded in 1849. The new designer has incorporated some of the original flourishes, from the subtle curves of the women’s handbags to elegant brass T-locks on men’s briefcases and false bottoms for hiding sensitive documents. Prices are commensurate with the high quality: totes start at about $900, custom luggage can easily exceed $20,000.

Musée Bourdelle

 18 rue Antoine Bourdelle Paris 15th

In the gardens and studios where Bourdelle (1861–1929) lived and worked, an exceptional collection of plaster casts, bronzes and marble sculptures—some of them monumental in size—created by the man who was an assistant to Rodin as well as a teacher of Giacometti and others. Closed Monday.

Philippe Le Libraire

 32 rue des Vinaigriers Paris 75010

A tiny, cozy bookshop packed floor-to-ceiling with comics, mangas, illustrated novels, books by independent publishers and hard-to-find music CDs.

Pasquale Bruni

 Bd Haussmann 75009 Paris

Luxury jewelry and accessories by Italian designer Eugenia Bruni, and a jewelry-inspired cosmetic line in partnership with By Terry makeup guru Terry de Gunzberg.

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Maison Fabre

 Jardins du Palais Royal 128-129 Galerie de Valois Paris 75001

The first Paris boutique of the family-run glove company founded in 1924, with a rainbow array of some 180 models all hand-crafted in the traditional glove-making town of Millau, in the Aveyron département of south-central France.

Crèmerie Quatrehomme

 62 rue de Sèvres Paris 75007

Marie and Alain Quatrehomme stock about 200 perfectly-ripened cheeses in their bright and busy Left Bank shop, where the staff is particularly friendly and helpful.

Musée du Louvre

 75058 Paris Métro: Palais Royal

The museum’s comprehensive collections cover the history of art from Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities to mid-19th-century European painting and sculpture, including Oriental, Islamic and primitive art and the monumental medieval remains of the Louvre itself.; information English/Spanish 01.40.20.53.17. Closed Tues.