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A 14th-century barn houses the abbey shop, outlet for the monks’ own products, including CDs of Gregorian chant, honey and beeswax candles.

Attractive plates, jugs, vases and lamps are decorated and fired according to 16th-century methods in the workshops attached to this seductive faïence shop. Demonstrations by appointment.

Going to a wedding or the races at Deauville? Get a one-off hat at this charming, old-fashioned modiste (milliner), the city’s sole survivor.

Taste the liqueur, aged in casks in the palace basement, before visiting the shop, well stocked with Bénédictines and B&B (Bénédictine blended with brandy).

Following this area’s traditional method of smoking fish (drying in sawdust before smoking over a beechwood fire), this smoke-house sells salmon, mackerel, herring and haddock.

Alexandre Audel is a potter from Martinique specializing in Vieux-Forges faïence. He also takes commissions.

On his farm on the Route du Fromage de Neufchâtel, Patrice Perrier makes and sells cider, flour, bread and the celebrated cheese.

De Cru cider, which uses only one variety of apple, is produced in this distillery just south of Dieppe. Stock up in the shop; if you have time, visit the exhibition about cider-making.

Learn about the history and production of linen at this captivating museum, then treat yourself to some new napkins or a tea towel from the tempting shop.

Latest venture of the Auzou family, chocolatiers since 1961, this irresistible shop is a chocoholic’s paradise.