Some streets or neighborhoods have an amazing number of shops for specific needs .

Here are a few:

Antique shops: Visit the "Village Suisse" (4 blocks, with only antique shops, in the 7th, corner Avenue de Suffren and Avenue de la Motte-Picquet) or the "Louvre des Antiquaires" (a building rue de Rivoli, facing the Louvre Museum), both good places to stroll around in search of a rare find.

Art Galeries : Rue de Seine (VIth)

Auctions: every day, Salle Drouot, rue Drouot 75009

Computers : Rue Montgallet (XIIIth)

Curtain or Dress Material : go to Marché Saint Pierre, right below Montmartre: great savings and great choice

Flowers : Marché aux Fleurs, Ile de la Cité near Notre-Dame, daily (and birds Sunday morning)

Furniture : Rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine (XIth)

Gifts : the Galerie Commerciale of the Louvre Museum (especially beautiful copies of ancient jewels, for instance), the Rue des Francs Bourgeois (for clothes or gift-hunting on Sundays).

Grocery Store : Epicerie du Bon Marché, an (expensive) Ali Baba cavern of wonders from France and other countries, 38 Rue de Sèvres 75007

Guitars- Drums : rue de Douai (IXth), near Pigalle

Luxury jewelry : Place Vendôme/Rue de la Paix (Irst)

Costume Jewelry : rue Réaumur/Rue du Temple (IIIrd)

Hardware : the basement of the Bazar de l'Hotel de Ville is a MUST and you can find everything !

Liquor stores : you can buy liquor anywhere and antytime but Nicolas is a good chain of liquor stores

Pets : many pet shops on Quai de la Mégisserie (between La Samaritaine and Chatelet)

Porcelain : Rue de Paradis (Xth)

Religious artifacts : around Saint Sulpice Church (VIth)

Stamps : Rue Lafayette/Rue de Chateaudun (IXth) and a mrket every Thursday on Avenue Gabriel (8th)

Violin-makers : Rue de Rome (VIIIth)

Videos (in English/home delivery) : Reels on Wheels, 35 rue de Croix Nivert 75015 Tel. (0)1 45 67 64 99

Wine : why don't you try Bercy ? On the site of former wine warehouses, a very beautiful park, a charming street with restaurants and bars, many wine shops of all sorts, the Résonances home furnishing store and a wonderful "Musée d'Art Forain" (a collection of merry-go-rounds and various circus machinery).