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graphic novels. Get glamorous black-and-white portraits, shot using continuous light, at Stu-
dio Harcourt's booth (four for €10).
SHOPPING
The concrete-block shopping mall opposite Gare Montparnasse includes a
branch of department store Galeries Lafayette. Savvy fashion shoppers head
to the southern 14e to shop for discount designer wear, while the 15e is filled
with specialist addresses. In the 13e you'll find Asian grocery stores and su-
permarkets in Chinatown, and an enormous state-of-the-art shopping mall at
place d'Italie.
ART SUPPLIES
ADAM MONTPARNASSE
9.30am-7pm Mon-Sat;
Edgar Quinet)
If Paris' art galleries have inspired you, pick up paint brushes, charcoals, pastels, sketch-
pads, watercolours, oils, acrylics, canvases and more at this historic shop. Picasso, Brancusi
and Giacometti were among Édouard Adam's clients. Another seminal client was Yves
Klein, with whom Adam developed the ultramarine 'Klein blue' - the VLB25 'Klein Blue'
varnish is sold exclusively here.
BOOK MARKET
MARCHÉ GEORGES BRASSENS
If you like the
bouquiniste
stalls along the Seine, you'll adore this enormous secondhand and
antiquarian book market adjacent to beautiful Parc Georges Brassens. More than 60 vendors
sell their wares beneath the pavilions of this former abattoir. Most (but not all) books are in
French, ranging from €1 euro paperbacks all the way to coveted collectors' editions.
FOOD
FROMAGERIE LAURENT DUBOIS
9am-1pm & 4-7.45pm
Tue-Fri, 8.30am-7.45pm Sat, 9am-1pm Sun; Dupleix)
The finest French cheeses are tantalisingly displayed at this branch of fêted Fromagerie
Laurent Dubois and can be vacuum-packed. There are two other shops in Paris, including a
Latin Quarter premises.
FOOD, DRINK
TANG FRÈRES
