After buying our combs and making a quick stop at the Merci store, we walked to Place des Vosges to get lunch at Carette.
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Merci Store |
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Arcade at Place des Vosges |
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Kate at the entrance to Carette |
Carrette is known for its hot chocolate and we wanted to warm up and also compare it to the hot chocolate at Angelina's. It arrived with a towering bowl of whipped cream.
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Hot Chocolate and Whipped Cream |
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Zucchini and Sweet Potato Potage With Croutons |
We ordered some warm soup and had a delightful lunch.
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View from Carrette outside to Place des Vosges |
The hot chocolate was not quite as heavy and intense as the hot chocolate at Angelina's. They had yummy looking pastries but we were too full to try any of those. Kate and I highly recommend Carrette and their hot chocolate.
When we left, the sun had come out and we walked around Place des Vosges and the Marais toward Hotel de Ville.
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Walking Along the Park at Place des Vosges |
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Place des Vosges Arcade |
We walked down rue des Rosiers. It is an old street (its name goes back to 1230) in the Jewish Quarter of the Marais that was originally just outside the wall around Paris. It got its name from the rose bushes that grew next to it in the gardens outside the Paris wall.
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Rue des Rosiers |
The famous L'As du Fallafel is on rue des Rosiers. The lines are a lot shorter in January.
We were surprised to find the other Fallafel shop across the street (the competition when the lines are long at L'As du Fallafel) had been replaced with a Krispy Kreme donut shop. I did not bother to take a picture of the Krispy Kreme shop. I was too sad to see its looming presence on this historic little street.![]() |
Sacha Finkelsztajn 'Father and Son since 1946' Yiddish Traiteur |
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Chagall Window Painting |
Many Jews were rounded up during the Holocaust from this street and neighborhood with the complicity of the French police. It is always a bit sobering to walk here and think about the sadness and fear. Many memorial plaques on the buildings tell their stories.
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Side Street in the Marais |
We went home under blue skies. Another beautiful day in Paris.
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