La Grande Epicerie is the place to gather your Paris pantry essentials - fleur du sel, cured meats, heady cheeses, delicate pastries. Of course, who doesn't enjoy perusing the luxury brands in Le Bon Marché department store, but our hearts belong to the best grocery store in the world, La Grande Epicerie de Paris, found just across the street from the main branch. Over the years, we've watched the grand magasin and only department store on the Rive Gauche (Left Bank) evolve and flourish. If you love the good life as much as we do, the minute you land in Paris you will make a beeline to Le Bon Marché. The fantastic pasty case at La Grande Epicerie de Paris, photo La Grande Epicerie Today, you might not want to linger all day but you could start your day at Flore with a croissant au beurre, an oeuf dur (hard boiled egg), jus d'orange, or chocolat special Flore. In the 1960s Cafe de Flore was the hub for New Wave celebrities Bridget Bardot, Roman Polanski, Yves Montand, Jean Seberg and fashion icons Yves St Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, and Karl Lagerfeld. Afterwards they would return to the Flore for a nightcap. Then he and Simone de Beauvoir would go elsewhere for lunch, return to the cafe by 2 PM and work until dinner. Jean-Paul Sartre talked about arriving at Cafe de Flore at 9 AM and working until noon. They didn't just stop in for a drink, cafes like Flore were their offices and second homes. ![]() People like Pablo Picasso, Albert Camus, Leon Trotsky. During the 1920s and 1930s poor artists and writers and revolutionaries who lived in small, unheated apartments would gather at Flore to get warm and to discuss their ideas. Like her famous neighbor, Les Deux Magots, Cafe de Flore first opened in St Germain in the late 19th century - 1887 to be exact.
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