Paris
I find it quite comforting to discover that while Paris remains as slick and european as ever, with scarcely a french voice to heard on certain streets. In various corners, however, Parisians are still pursuing various eccentric trades. It all started when I went looking for a shop I had found the last time I worked at the Pompidou; it specialised entirely in cow related artefacts, and I was hoping to find some friesian patterned socks to cheer up the Arts correspondent. As I half suspected, that shop might have been too specialised in its appeal, and has now been replaced by a bar.What I did find, however were two splendidly eccentric shops, one specialising in the restoration and hire of ivory and historical animal specimens. and in Les Halles, a shop dedicated to the destruction of rats, with a comprehensive window display of specimens killed in the area since 1925. Its proximity to a very nice boulangerie must, I think, be coincidental.
posted by Lampy @ 5/29/2008 01:21:00 pm
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