It all started when ethnologist Sandrine Dulon traveled the world with a friend and came back with a collection of antique jewelry, semi-precious stones and other inspiring materials. First Sandrine Dulon made jewelry for her friends, then her work became increasingly popular and finally she met the person who launched her career: French Elle Magazine fashion editor fell in love with the Satellite Spring and Summer collection of 1988 and it made the cover of the magazine’s January Special Fashion issue of that year. Satellite’s new collections are bi-annual and always reflect diverse cultural influences.

Satellite
1st arrondissement
314 Rue Saint-Honoré
75001 Paris
tel: 01.42.60.01.30
Metro: Tuileries, Pyramides

M-Sat: 10.30am-7pm (until 7.30pm on Saturday)
Closed Sunday

2nd arrondissement
10 Passage du Grand Cerf
75002 Paris
tel: 01.55.34.95.75
Metro: Etienne Marcel

M-Sat: 10am-7pm
Closed on Sunday

4th arrondissement
23 Rue des Francs Bourgeois
75004 Paris
tel: 01.40.29.45.77
Metro: Saint-Paul

7/7
M-Sun: 11am-7.30pm

Bazar de l’Hotel de Ville (BHV)
52 Rue de Rivoli
75004 Paris
tel: 01.44.59.39.88
Metro: Hotel-de-Ville

M-Sat: 9.30am-7.30pm (until 9pm on Wednesday)
Closed on Sunday

6th arrondissement
15 Rue du Cherche-Midi
75006 Paris
tel: 01.45.44.67.06
Metro: Saint-Sulpice, Sèvres-Babylone

M-Sat: 10.30am-7pm (closed 45 min for lunch on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)

7th arrondissement
Le Bon Marché
22 Rue de Sèvres
75007 Paris
tel: 01.44.39.80.00
Metro: Sèvres-Babylone

M-W: 10am-7.30pm
Th: 10am-9pm
F: 10am-8pm
Sat: 9.30am-8pm
Closed on Sunday

9th arrondissement
Le Printemps
64 Boulevard Haussmann
75009 Paris
tel: 01.42.82.53.76
Metro: Havre-Caumartin

M-Sat: 9.35am-7pm (until 10pm on Thursday)
Closed on Sunday

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Nougat, chocolate nougat, huge slabs of it cut in whatever amounts and sold by the weight, praliné butters—little glass jars of hazelnut butter or mixed nut butter, marrons glacés (chestnuts candied in sugar syrup and glazed), chocolate, candied almonds, guimauve (marshmallow), salty caramels and macarons, all of it can be found in this minuscule store. La Boutique du Labo also sells ice-cream in the warmer seasons, and offers an array of different sides such as coulis (fresh fruit syrup), nuts or hot chocolate sauce to add to the scoops of ice-cream. The shop also has an Italian ice-cream maker, the kind that makes swirly ice-cream cones, but unlike all of those found in touristy areas, this one only serves homemade ice-cream made with all natural ingredients.

La Boutique du Labo
4 Place du marché Sainte-Catherine
75004 Paris
tel: 01.42.71.35.67
Metro: Saint-Paul

Tu-Sun: 11am-8pm
Closed on Monday

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Vintage Desire is a very popular shop filled with cheap vintage clothing in the heart of the Marais. Lots of bags and shoes too. You’ll have to squeeze your way through this pocket-size shop. A handful of people is enough to crowd this place so I would advise checking out Vintage Desire during the week or in the evening—it is open 7 days a week and until 9pm every day. And when you are done shopping head for the best falafel in Paris a few doors down the street, at l’As du Fallafel!

Vintage Desire
32 Rue des Rosiers
75004 Paris
tel: 01.40.27.04.98
Metro: Saint-Paul

7/7
M-Sun: 11am-9pm

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Imagine a pita so big you almost need to hold it with two hands. L’As du fallafel in Paris has the best falafel in town: scrumptious crispy garlicky chickpea falafel, creamy sesame hummus, pickled crunchy cabbage, small pieces of salty cucumber, fried eggplant and mildly hot harissa (spicy sauce). This is a very filling dish and yet it’s so good you might feel like having another bite or two once you are done with it. It is served with a plastic fork and is usually eaten right there on the street. At L’As du Fallafel the line can be ridiculously long on sunny weekends… that said I’d definitely go on a sunny day since most of the time you end up eating your falafel outside.

L’As du Fallafel
34 Rue des Rosiers
75004 Paris
tel: 01.48.87.63.60
Metro: Saint-Paul

M-Sun: 11am-12am
Closed on Friday evening and Saturday for Sabbath

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Located on the second floor of the Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée, on the place des Vosges, this museum used to be Victor Hugo’s home from 1832 to 1848. Each room is dedicated to a specific period of his life and offers, through manuscripts, first editions, drawings, paintings, sculptures, cabinets and photography an insight into the writer’s life. He wrote Les Misérables while residing there.
Free permanent collection. There is a fee for the temporary exhibitions.

Maison de Victor Hugo
6 Place des Vosges
75004 Paris
tel: 01.42.72.10.16
Metro: Bastille, Saint-Paul

Tues-Sun: 10am-6pm
Closed on Monday

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Housed in the 18th-century Hôtel Hénault de Cantobre this museum is the Parisian reference in terms of international contemporary photography from the 1950’s until today, with a collection of over 20000 photogrpahs. The temporary exhibits feature photographers such as Depardon, Larry Clark, Annie Leibovitz, Irving Penn, Salgado…
Free admission for all on Wednesday from 5pm-8pm only.

Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5-7 Rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris
tel: 01.44.78.75.00
Metro: Saint-Paul

W-Sun: 11am-8pm (ticket window closes at 7.30pm)
Closed on Monday and Tuesday

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Founders of the late department store La Samaritaine, Ernest Cognacq and his wife Louise Jay dedicated part of their fortune to collecting art, with a predilection for 18th-century French art. In 1990, their collection was transferred to the 16th-century Hôtel Donon, in the Marais, and includes paintings by Fragonard and Boucher, graphic arts, sculptures, furniture, jewelry, porcelain and other objets d’art.

Musée Cognacq-Jay
8 rue Elzévir
75003 Paris
tel: 01.40.27.07.21
Metro: Saint-Paul

Tues-Sun: 10am-6pm (Ticket window closes at 5.30pm)
Closed on Monday

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Museum of the History of Paris, from its origin - the Gallo-Roman period - until the 20th century. It houses the oldest and most important collection of documents (drawings, engravings…) related to the French Revolution on themes as various as the press, women, religious issues or vandalism.
Free permanent collection.
Temporary exhibitions are 4,50 €.

Musée Carnavalet
23 Rue Sévigné
75003 Paris
tel: 01.44.59.58.58
Metro: Saint-Paul

Tues-Sun: 10am-6pm (Ticket window closes at 5.30pm)
Closed on Monday

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