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Quiet Paris: find a bench and cool your jets at Square Boucicaut

17 Tuesday Feb 2015

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Paris parks, Square Boucicaut

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Noise, crowded sidewalks and tourist attractions are exhausting. Taking a break in one of Paris’s beautiful parks can be a refreshing interlude. Sit and staring, reading your guidebook (No Worries Paris) or munching on a sandwich are acceptable activities. No smoking please. Chill.

paris par kNoWorries Visiting this square filled with exotic plants and artistic plantings located across from Bon Marche department store can be a magic moment. Bon Marche has a gourmet deli, grocery department and outstanding patisserie for all your picnic needs. Eat, rest, shop ’til you drop. This is an activity off the beaten tourist path, so share a bench with a local and enjoy your splendid day in Paris. quietparis

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The petite jewel of the 6th: Square Boucicaut

03 Saturday May 2014

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Bon Marche, Hotel Lutetia, Paris botanicals, Paris gardens, Square Boucicaut

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Exit the Sèvres-Babylone Métro station, then orient yourself by turning in a circle to see the historic Bon Marché department store, Luteita Hotel, and luxuriously landscaped Boucicaut Park, a three-fer outing.

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The garden honors the memory of Aristide Boucicaut, the creator of the famous Bon Marché. Around 1870, the shopkeeper launched a revolutionary concept: free entry, the fixed price, lower margins, home delivery, item exchange, mail order, promotional periods and sales, private concerts, a reading area and much more. He soon bought the land vacated by the cemetery Hospice of Little Houses and the cemetery of Saint-Sulpice, called the Trinity, in order to open his first store in Paris.

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I digress to suggest a picnic on one of the park benches. The grandest of grand place for gourmet edibles, 30,000 of them: La Grande Epicerie de Paris is housed on the ground floor of the department store right across the street. They boast verifiably: “an unmissable treat, an unadulterated delight and a unique experience. I like to take away the cold marinated chicken brochettes. Perfect lap food, not too messy.

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As for the Art Deco Lutetia, if it’s finished with it’s renovation, walk on in to drink in the ultra swank decor.

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