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    Hotels Opera - Bourse - Place Vendome - Grands Boulevards - 2nd district, zip code : 75002)

    It is one of the shopping districts (“magasinage” as our cousins from Quebec would say), where fashionable and teen age trademarks are often present like Benetton, Zara or MNG, where many movie theaters are located, and theaters as the Comic Opera and Théâtre de la Michodière, as well as so many restaurants, fastfoods and Parisian breweries.

    The Garnier Opera, facing the avenue of the opera which emerges on the Louvre and the rue de Rivoli, had seen its roofs renovated a few years ago and its bronzes regilded rendering the appearance it had when it was built. Immediately on your right by leaving the Place de l’Opera, there is the rue de la Paix which leads to place Vendôme. Leaving the Opera on the far right, the Boulevard des Capucines takes you straight to the Place de la Madeleine where you will be able to take the rue Tronchet (one of the most commercial streets of Paris) to bring you back at the Opera in front of the Galeries Lafayette, and the Printemps the two huge Parisian department stores.

    From the left side of the Opera the Boulevard des Italiens brings you towards the auction-room of Espace Drouot where pieces of furniture, jewels paintings and other sculptures of every century and all the styles are regularly subjects to bid. While there, hanging around, you will be able to see one of the covered galleries of Paris the Gallerie Vivienne which as its name indicates, starts at the rue Vivienne.

    While walking up this street you will cross the rue du 4 Septembre where you will see the French Stock Exchange (la Bourse, also called Palais Brognard), an exceptional building, designed like a Greek temple and which used to host, a few months ago stock traders. These people would meet around what was called “la Corbeille” (the basket) where French blue chips were quoted.

    The rue du 4 Septembre crosses the Sentier (the garment district), where had been created during a long time the prêt -à-porter (ready to wear). There are still manufacturers and wholesalers even if the “made in China” imports tend to replace it today. If you choose to go to the right, you will soon meet the Place Notre Dame des Victoires, hall of fame of the fashion creators.