Underground & cool · Bookshop & gallery · € · 3e · Haut Marais
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Alexandre and Marie Thumerelle's bookshop in the Haut-Marais, the supply line for independent fashion, photography, design and art magazines from Seoul to São Paulo. A small gallery behind it runs rolling exhibitions and launches.
Stock turns over fast; check what's pinned up in the back gallery.
Getting there
- Temple390 m · 2 min walk
- République358911280 m · 5 min walk
- Arts et Métiers311340 m · 6 min walk
Around the corner
Bisou (band) · 160 m away
Bisou was a German girl group founded by rapper Bushido in 2007.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Cocktail Barsstop 6 of 6 · 160 m
Bisou
15 Boulevard du Temple, opened 2018 by ex-Mary Celeste bartender Nicolas Munoz. No menu — you tell the bartender what spirits and flavours you like, and they make you a drink. The deliberate inverse of the cocktail-book ritual: every drink is bespoke.
No menu means you have to talk. Try "something with mezcal, smoky, not too sweet" or "surprise me with a gin drink" — both will be taken seriously. The bar is small, around 20 seats; arrive early or expect to wait. End of the cocktail tour, or the start of a longer night.
- Canal Saint-Martinstop 1 of 6 · 270 m
Place de la République
1880, redesigned 2013. The 9.5 m bronze statue of Marianne (allegory of the Republic) at the centre, with the three smaller figures at her feet representing Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Pedestrianised in 2013; one of the few large public squares in the city without traffic in the middle.
The square is a major demonstration site — if there's been an event in the news, the base of the statue is often covered in candles, flowers, and posters. Walk to the north-east corner of the square; that's where Rue du Faubourg-du-Temple begins, and the canal is one block north.
- Upper Maraisstop 1 of 6 · 300 m
Square du Temple
Where the medieval Temple complex once stood — the headquarters of the Knights Templar in France, demolished by Napoleon in 1808. Louis XVI was imprisoned in the Temple's tower from 1792 until his execution. Now a gentle public garden with a bandstand and a playground.
Enter from Rue de Bretagne. The bronze plaque on the south wall traces the outline of the medieval Temple precinct. The garden's hidden secret: a small carp pond at the back, almost always empty of visitors.
- Markets of Parisstop 1 of 6 · 320 m
Marché des Enfants Rouges
39 Rue de Bretagne, founded 1615 — the oldest covered market in Paris. Named for the red-clothed orphans of a nearby 16th-century orphanage. Now equal parts produce and prepared-food stalls; the Moroccan and Italian counters at lunch are excellent.
Closed Mondays. Lunch is the move — three or four prepared-food counters serve actual meals at communal tables in the back. The Moroccan tagine counter is the local favourite; arrive at noon to beat the queue. Closes 14:30.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Le BaravWine bar with food€ · 3 minA corner wine bar with some 250 references you can drink on site or carry out from the attached cave, set against boards of charcuterie and cheese. Lunch is a short list of tartines, salads and a homemade plat.
- Chez OmarNorth African couscous€€ · 5 minAn old-Marais brasserie that has poured couscous for decades — merguez, lamb brochettes, or the mixed-meat royale — in a room that fills loud and fast.
- Little Red DoorCocktail bar€€€ · 5 minA fixture on the World's 50 Best list, it builds each menu around one argument — the current one ties every drink to agriculture and sustainability. The name's red door is a feint; there is no trick, just the bar.
- LavomaticSpeakeasy bar€€ · 6 minA cocktail bar reached by pressing a button on a fake washing machine inside a working-looking laundromat; upstairs, pop-coloured poufs and swing seats.
- Le Traiteur Marocain (Enfants Rouges)Covered-market stall€ · 6 minA tiled corner stall inside Paris's oldest covered market, working through thirteen versions of couscous and a row of slow-cooked tagines under glass. The lemon chicken and the lamb-skewer couscous are the dependable orders, eaten elbow-to-elbow.
- CandelariaSpeakeasy bar€€ · 7 minOrder a taco at the counter of a narrow taquería, then push through the unmarked white door at the back into the room that opened the city's speakeasy era in 2011. The cocktails stay precise and agave-led.
The district · 3e
Haut Marais — The upper MaraisThe quieter, cooler half of the Marais — galleries, the Carnavalet and Picasso museums, the Marché des Enfants Rouges, and small designers on Rue de Bretagne. Medieval streets with a contemporary tenant list.
Best for: Design and gallery people who want the Marais without the worst of the crush.
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