The tall glass jars on this vibrant and ethereal store are crammed with colourful artisanal candies from round France — pastilles, calissons, pâtes de fruit, sweets — and loads of nostalgia.
Sensible info
Handle: 19 rue Monge, 75005
Nearest transport: Cardinal Lemoine (10)
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-7:30pm; closed Sunday and Monday
Phone: 01 78 56 15 72
Web site Fb
Evaluations of curiosity
Time Out (2012) “Shopkeeper Georges Marques is the enthusiastic schoolteacher desirous to take his college students on a sugar-dusted tour of the nation. Apothecary jars of various sizes and shapes maintain artisanal sweets from throughout France – the lilac-shaded Jacqueline from Dijon, an almond paste-stuffed meringue; the deep pink chocolate Papaline from Avignon; pralines from the Loiret; foil-wrapped barley sugar from Vichy; and a bunch of stuffed plums, confit clementines, crystallised flowers and jelly buttons in Crayola shades.”
François-Régis Gaudry (2011) “…plus de 200 bonbons régionaux…Georges connaît chacun de ses trésors par coeur, et vous les raconte avec power anecdotes.”
David Lebovitz (2011) “A devoted assortment of candies from throughout France….candies that French children would bear in mind fondly.”
Photograph through Le Bonbon au Palais’ Fb
