The Paris Shopping Companion: A Personal Guide to Shopping in Paris for Every Pocketbook

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It has been said that even those who hate shopping love to shop in Paris. Indeed, of all the ways to explore the City of Lights—touring, studying, or meandering through its colorful streets—shopping is by far the most pleasant and civilized way to get to know the city.

This new edition of The Paris Shopping Companion is a major revision and expansion of the third edition. As such, it is the perfect book for the traveler who wants to make the most of what Paris has to offer. While certainly a travel guide, it provides something no other book offers: personal guidance from two authors who know the city and its shops intimately. Each establishment is viewed from a French point of view, and practical advice is given on the best buys at each shop. With maps of the major shopping areas and photographs that richly illustrate the text, the book is organized to encourage shopping forays, neighborhood by neighborhood, throughout the city.

The Paris Shopping Companion describes the merchandise of a wide array of Paris businesses that offer unique goods and services, from clothing to linens, jewelry and accessories to books (including English-language stores), stationery, food, collectibles, leather goods, kitchen aids, and more. Packed with practical information, it will be useful for anyone who travels to Paris, regardless of one's budget.

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Shopping Guide.......2007-09-11

Lots of the shops and retaurants were closed in August which was not noted in the book and two in particular were no longer at the address shown. While all the shops were located by an area it would have been nicer if the shops were along a fixed route.

Not just shopping!.......2007-02-04

I lived in Paris for two years (2004-2006) but didn't begin to shop until I found this book (recommended by Amazon). Often in Paris, the store windows don't really show much about what's inside, but this book tells everything you want to know before getting on the Metro. Every description was accurate. The shops were where they were supposed to be, the merchandise was as described in the book, and prices were close on the mark.

Every Saturday I mapped out where I would go based on "the book". I found that if I read the shop descriptions, I could tell in advance if I would want to find them, so I would check off my "must sees". Along the way I made notes in the margins about the shops, and also what else was in the neighborhood. I didn't find the restaurant reviews particularly helpful, and wish they were left out to make room for more shops.

An unexpected bonus: looking for "the book" stores often lead me into streets and neighborhoods far from my usual treks, and MORE shops! The sightseeing hints were excellent also. I never went out without this book, and my co-workers borrowed it until it became available at WH Smith. I met Susan Winkler at a book signing there, and she was amazed at my margin notes (and probably at the tattered condition of the book).

Two of the specialty shops Susan praised were down the street (Rue Royale) from where I worked and I went into them at lunchtime at least once a week. My only regret is that my last month in Paris was the dead month, August, when almost every thing is closed, but I burned up the pavements for the six months preceeding. (I bought the book as soon as it came out in February).

Happy shopping!

A guide for all ages, price ranges, and wants!.......2006-08-27

I was lucky enough to have Winkler's guide with me this past year on a shopping trip to Paris with my mother and grandmother. Truly, Winkler's presence made the trip. Without her insight and advice we would have been absolutely lost. Winkler's book is real insider's guide to Paris that held excellent advice and suggestions for the three generations of women in my family. Based off of my experience, I am confident that anyone looking for anything could be helped by The Paris Shopping Companion. Winkler must be a women with real style!

Paris at its best!.......2006-07-21

This is more than a shopping book....it is the easy way to get the best that Paris offers. The restaurant suggestions have proved to be extrodinary and the selection of hotels allows you to stay anywhere in the city that suits your whims. There is so much in Paris and this book allows you to organize, focus and have more time to enjoy what interests you...to find those special things you want to bring home. A necessity for your next trip!
Roz Elms Sutherland

The Paris Shopping Companion: A Personal Guide to the Finest Shops in Paris for Every Pocketbook

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Make the most of Paris
If you can read a little French, I have a better suggestion. . .
The most interesting,comfortable and easy to use travel book
Limited and hard to use
Luxe, Calme, et Volupte...especially Volupte!

The Paris Shopping Companion: A Personal Guide to the Finest Shops in Paris for Every Pocketbook
Susan Swire Winkler
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It has been said that even those who hate shopping love to shop in Paris. Indeed, of all the ways to explore the City of Lights—touring, studying, or meandering through its streets—shopping is by far the most pleasant and civilized way to get to know the city.

The Paris Shopping Companion is the perfect book for the traveler who wants to make the most of what Paris has to offer. While certainly a travel guide, it provides something no other book does: personal guidance from someone who knows how to look at each establishment from a French point of view and who offers practical advice on the best buys at each shop. Containing maps of the major shopping areas, the book is organized to encourage shopping forays neighborhood by neighborhood.

The Paris Shopping Companion describers the merchandise of a wide array of Paris businesses offering unique goods and services, from clothing to linens, jewelry and accessories to books, stationery, food, collectibles, leather goods, kitchen aids, and more. Packed with practical information, it will be useful for anyone who travels to Paris, regardless of one's budget. TRAVEL ILLUSTRATED; PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS 6” X 9”, 192 PAGES PAPERBACK

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Make the most of Paris.......2006-08-10

Reviewed by Irene Watson for Reader Views (7/06)

Shopping in Paris...isn't that every woman's dream? It sure was mine and I was pleased to review Winkler's book. When we think of shopping in Paris, we often think of Christian Dior, Apostrophe, Chanel, Cartier, and other well known designers.

However, Winkler gives us another perspective on shopping in Paris. Not only does she depict the designer outlets, she also leads us to checking out the lesser priced merchandise, yet much of the same quality and style.

Of interest to me was Place Vendome where Hotel Ritz is located. Not only did I experience lunch at the hotel, but also had an opportunity to spot Yoko Ono and Johnny Depp having lunch near our table. After lunch we strolled the cobblestone parking lot and shopped in the infamous jewelry houses: Chaumet, Cartier, and Boucheron - some of my favorite designers.

"The Paris Shopping Companion" is not only a shopping guide. Winkler provides a visitor's guide which includes the best time to go to Paris, what to take, how to get around, customs, and shipping your purchases back to the U.S. She suggests accommodations which are quaint and located to many of the main attractions. She also gives information on attractions in sections called "along the way" e.g. explanation of Musee D'Orsay, address, metro, telephone and hours of operation.

This book is a must for anyone traveling to Paris. It is concise and complete, user friendly and certainly takes the fear of visiting a city where the spoken language is French. Although, I must say, not being able to speak French all I needed to know is: Parlez-vous l'anglais? and there was some around that did speak English. Take "The Paris Shopping Companion" on your next trip to Paris!

If you can read a little French, I have a better suggestion. . ........2005-10-24

If you are looking for actual Paris BARGAINS, you will find Paris Moins Cher far more helpful than this book. even if you speak very little French, you can decipher enough to lead you to the real, hidden deals. And I should know -- as the best-selling author of 14 books of a similar nature (albeit to North American cities like Vancouver and Toronto) -- this Paris guide is really the "competition." I wish I had written a guidebook like Paris Moins Cher, but alas, I can only purchase it! As well, Paris Moins Cher is updated every single year, and believe me, that's important, if you are visiting only periodically, as things DO change quickly. I try to write updates on evalu8.org, but one person can only cover so much territory. Bon chance, et bon marche!

The most interesting,comfortable and easy to use travel book.......2002-10-11

I have enjoyed using this book, and shared it with no fewer then six friends this summer who also traveled to Paris. At a recent book club meeting, we all agreed that Ms Winkler's book provides the most unique and pleasurable guide to walking, or shopping in Paris.

I wish she (Susan Winkler) would right a guide to London!!

Limited and hard to use.......2002-09-12

This book is difficult to use and very limited in scope. It is organized by the right and left bank which is so broad as to be of little use. Occassionally, it will mention a street and rattle off the names of some stores on that street. Fewer adjectives and more hard information would have helped. A large amount of space is given to big name stores and famous designers that nobody needs a special guide to find. It mentions Limoges twice but gives no further information about where one can find Limoges. It didn't mention Gien, a famous French pottery which is now sold in Neiman Marcus. Other guides were much more useful than this book in helping locate clothing stores that would appeal to a teenage girl. The shopping information in the typical guide book was more useful and eaiser to access.

Luxe, Calme, et Volupte...especially Volupte!.......2002-05-19

Like the du Bellay poem, Winkler's book manages to take the chaos of delights to the senses that is Paris and make it intelligible, while preserving the serendipity and spontaneous spirit that characterises the City of Light. The Paris Shopping Companion provides an excellent entree into the city for the novice, and for the seasoned traveler -- or even parisienne -- it is like a generous old friend (one with a much better memory), always ready to offer advice and information. With an engaging style, The Paris Shopping Companion manages to achieve both being excellent bathtime reading and an invaluable reference, whether you are searching for pralines in the 16th or lithographs in the sixth. Of course, Winkler's knowledge of fashion is extensive, and her advice on shopping for clothes is spot-on; her assessments of a boutique's particular style are ringingly accurate. Lastly, Winkler includes interesting bits of information about landmarks, history, and the arts of one of the world's most fascinating cities. This book is more than a shopping guide -- it is truly a superb companion. Je suis accro!

The Companion Guide to Paris (The Companion Guides Series)

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Excellent guide, but not for everyone
Best insiders glimpse of Paris!

The Companion Guide to Paris (The Companion Guides Series)
Anthony Glyn
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Highly praised on its first appearance, this new edition of the Companion Guide to Paris, fully revised by Anthony Glyn's widow, preserves his vivid evocation of Paris - its foundation and history, ancient churches, wide boulevards and narrow streets, architecture, and philosophy - while bringing the book up to date. Special attention is paid to the completed Grand Louvre with its Pyramid, the d'Orsay and Picasso Museums and the refurbished Centre Pompidou; the changes to the Eiffel Tower and the Panthéon; and the restoration of the footpaths along the Seine. Informed and amusing, the book captures the changing moods of this fascinating city.

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Excellent guide, but not for everyone.......2006-06-30

This book is very heavy on text and very light on maps and other illustrations. The text is informative and conveys the perspective of someone who clearly has long familiarity with the city. So for the reader ready to spend some time and sink into the book, it is an excellent guide. But if you are looking for something that tells you what to see if you have two days or uses graphics to point you quickly to the major sights, stick with the other guides. Put another way, this book is old-fashioned and it feels old-fashioned. Great for some readers, but not for everyone.

Best insiders glimpse of Paris!.......2000-12-26

I stumbled upon this gem when buying 6 Paris guidebooks to Paris for [a.] a long flight, and [b.] a week of business in France. This Anthony Glyn publication significantly out-did the others. It was insightful, and USEFUL, and, best of all, quite humorous. I liked so much, I bought one dozen as Christmas presents for co-workers with future stints in Paris. I recommend to one, and all -- those visiting briefly as well as those with longer stays.

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This is a second, revised and updated edition of Ian Dunlop's essential guide, originally published under the title of The Companion Guide to the Ile de France.This guide is a labour of love. It is a key that will open many tiny, hidden, forsaken places, a ruined keep in a farmyard, the remains of an arch in a field, an escutcheon, forlorn and heralding nothing but desolation and an old Revolution, a triumphal entrance leading to emptiness, a stone stag in an autumnal forest that has heard the French horn for 200 years, and the infinite sadness of the Petit Trianon. SPECTATOR

Slow Walks in Paris: A Visitor's Companion (Slow Walks)

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Slow Walks in Paris: A Visitor's Companion (Slow Walks)
Michael Leitch
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The companion guide around Paris
Ian Dunlop
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It has become known to many as the moment when the U.S. Supreme Court kicked God out of the public schools, supposedly paving the way for a decline in educational quality and a dramatic rise in delinquency and immorality. The 6-to-1 decision in Engel v. Vitale (1962) not only sparked outrage among a great many religious Americans, it also rallied those who cried out against what they perceived as a dangerously activist Court.

Bruce Dierenfield has written a concise and readable guide to the first-and still most important-case that addressed the constitutionality of prayer in public schools. The 22-word recitation in a Long Island school that was challenged in Engel v. Vitale was hardly denominational-not even overtly Christian-but a handful of parents saw it as a violation of the First Amendment's proscription again the establishment of religion. The case forced the Supreme Court to take a stand on Jefferson's "wall of separation" between church and state. When it did so, the Court declared that by endorsing the prayer recitation-no matter how brief, nondenominational, or voluntary-the Long Island school board had unconstitutionally approved the establishment of religion in school.

Writing with impeccable fairness and sensitivity, Dierenfield sets his account of the Engel decision in the larger historical and political context, citing battles over a wide range of religious activities in public schools throughout American history. He takes readers behind the scenes at school board meetings and Court deliberations to show real people wrestling with deeply personal issues. Through interviews with many of the participants, he also reveals the large price paid by the plaintiffs and their children, who were frequently harassed both during and after the trial.

For a long time, opponents of the decision have loudly claimed that it was based on a distorted reading of the First Amendment and deprived Americans of their right to practice religion. Dierenfield shows that the polarizing effect of Engel-a decision every bit as controversial as Roe v. Wade-has reverberated through the subsequent decades and gained intensity with the rise of the religious right. His book helps readers understand why, even in the face of this landmark decision, Americans remain divided on how divided church and state should be.

This book is part of the Landmark Law Cases and American Society series.

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The Battle over School Prayer.......2007-09-17

Bruce Dierenfield has written an excellent book that combines the personal stories of a very divisive court case, with an excellent historical overview of the relationship between church and state in the U.S.
As a child of one of the plaintiffs I was fascinated to learn the stories of other people involved with the case.

Why not at home?.......2007-05-08

Over the years I have heard many reasons for school prayer. Everything from the demise of our society in general, to the violence at Virginia Tech. All such attention given to one reason for society's ills with avoidance of many others. The increase in school violence, lack of prayer in our schools. No mention the effects of more and more Mothers working outside the home. No mention of how we have been redirected as to how we disipline our children. You know "They are just expressing themselves." "Or to disipline them is to destroy their self esteem." No you are teaching them to live an orderly life in an ordered society. Instead of blaming a lack of school prayer for our ills, why not blame we as parents?

In the 6th Chapter of Matthew Christ admonished us to pray in private, in our closets, not as some glowing example of so called Christian values, in public. Which is so like wearing ones religion on ones sleeve, and looking down on those who choose to pray in private. In turn the 1962 Supereme Court decision has also given rise to this need to display the 10 Commandments on our public grounds or in our courthouses. In turn angring many professed Christians. Deplorying a merger between "Church and State." One reason many of us came to this land in the first place, "Freedom from religion." Not just freedom of religion.

This book gives us a reminder of what we have had to contend with in our society since 1962, from both sides. This is not a Christian nation, and we should attempt to revamp our values. Never mind that at the founding of this nation the new comers tried to exterminate those who were here already, and then we brought peoples from another land as slaves. Not too Christ like from where I stand.

What about those of other beliefs, who do not believe as the majority, you know Buddist, Muslims, Jews, and even non believers? Should not their needs be respected as well? What ever happened to "Love Thy Neighbor?"

Our Constitution dose state in part Congress shall make no law respecting one religion, or the establishment of one religion as opposed to another. So we then call the judges "Activist" for upholding this point. If we are so "Religious," why all the wars? In this world we have fought more wars over religion than anything in history. Blaming a whole host of ills on a lack of school pray for everything from increased crime, to abortion.

So we get upset over the court upholding our Constitution, which we both love and hate.

Read this book, and get an inside look at both sides of this argument, and understand there is a great need for not school prayer, but home prayer, to whom ever, and how ever an individual prays. There is after all, diversity even within Christianty, so why should one frame of mind win out. Tolerance is the message here. Educate your self, refresh in your mind even though "Atheist" brought the suite, we all win in tolerance.

Engel v. Vitale (1962) (Religion and the Schools)

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Engel v. Vitale (1962) (Religion and the Schools)
Mark E. Dudley
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Engel V. Vitale (Great Supreme Court Decisions)

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Engel V. Vitale (Great Supreme Court Decisions)
Shane Mountjoy
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Engel V. Vitale: Prayer in the Schools (Supreme Court Milestones)

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Engel V. Vitale: Prayer in the Schools (Supreme Court Milestones)
Susan Dudley Gold
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Engel V. Vitale: Separation of Church and State (Landmark Supreme Court Cases)

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Biased beyond words

Engel V. Vitale: Separation of Church and State (Landmark Supreme Court Cases)
Carol Haas
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Biased beyond words.......2006-03-08

This book does a great job in laying out the history and case of the Engel v Vitale case via which the Supremes declared the practice of corporate prayer unconstitutional. It does such a great job in this function due to its undue bias toward the status quo. If one were to page through this book, one would find undeniable biased facts that support the position that this case was inevitiable, and would have ultimately resulted in the same as we have today. Yet the reader is left with many doubts as to other precedents that the Supreme Court utilized in upholding the practice of prayer in public schools that are neglected in the book, but nevertheless implied if one reads carefully between the lines.

This book is not a bad book if the reader understands its bias, but if one is lead to believe it is simply an unbiased, objective reporting of the case of Engel v Vitale, one would be greatly deceived.

Famous Trials - Engel v. Vitale: Prayer in the Public Schools (Famous Trials)

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Famous Trials - Engel v. Vitale: Prayer in the Public Schools (Famous Trials)
Julia C. Loren
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The Supreme Court decision in the Engel v. Vitale case upheld the "Constitutional Wall of Separation" between church and state and shook deeply entrenched religious beliefs and practices out of the public school system. This landmark case marked the beginning of the end of religious practices of prayer and Bible reading sponsored by state funds on public school campuses.

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Engel v. Vitale: An appraisal
S. Oley Cutler
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The reaction of Congress to the 1962 Supreme Court Engel v. Vitale decision

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The reaction of Congress to the 1962 Supreme Court Engel v. Vitale decision
Stephanie Marcus
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The Supreme Court opinion in the School Prayer Case (Engel v. Vitale): The decision, the reaction, the pros and cons

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The Supreme Court opinion in the School Prayer Case (Engel v. Vitale): The decision, the reaction, the pros and cons
Raymond J Celada
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