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This tiny shop packs in a great array of gourmet delights, from orange sauce to speciality vinegars and mustards, to chocolate “snails”, all prettily packaged.

Preserved and packaged poultry products such as foie gras and goose confit are the speciality here, but there is a range of other items. A good place for gifts for foodie friends.

Today Paris, tomorrow the world. This eccentric travel bookshop will take you there with thousands of titles in French and English – including many on Paris itself.

The place to stock up for a picnic or the day’s treats: superb croissants for the morning, pâtés and terrines and irresistible desserts for lunch.

A stylish shop that sells French-designed jewellery along with all manner of other tastefully made items including pens, photograph frames and a range of stationery.

A wealth of meteorites, fossils and minerals. Some specimens are put to good use in imaginative jewellery.

Wild about rubber? That’s the magic material for the whimsical jewellery and accessories sold here, along with baby bibs and novelty gifts.

A wonderful collection of ethnic goods including carvings, furniture, jewellery and other craft items from all over the world.

Cheese in all shapes and sizes from all over France. An aromatic delight.

You won’t be able to resist the bread baking in the wood-burning oven from this old-fashioned bakery.

Ornate mirrored walls and gold decor complement a simple but quality menu.

Go for the views as well as the food in this tearoom, open from breakfast until 2am.

This lovely Baroque church on Ile St-Louis was designed between 1664 and 1726 by the royal architect Louis Le Vau. The exterior features an iron clock (1741) at the entrance and an iron spire, while the interior, richly decorated with gilding and marble, has a statue of St Louis holding his Crusader’s sword.

Fascinating remnants of early Paris dating back to Gallo-Roman times were discovered in 1965 during an excavation of the square in front of Notre-Dame in order to build an underground car park. The archaeological crypt displays parts of 3rd-century Roman walls, rooms heated by hypocaust, as well as remains of medieval streets and foundations. The scale models showing the evolution of the city from its origins as a Celtic settlement are particularly interesting.