Des bonbons et du vin

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMJf0HWq3A-Ro-I6mPrjdE_ue41lVn4ZDT90PplzzxUmuE376y5d8MPy123ehioOUcG_pQJZG4Vfcgs6WWmfFJIbhbgd5PGHelX0axpLxosUQgw_XmZQG6Vii0ZqmF1C60_sfBqJb5EOc/s1600/2012+Jan+12+1st_0063.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMJf0HWq3A-Ro-I6mPrjdE_ue41lVn4ZDT90PplzzxUmuE376y5d8MPy123ehioOUcG_pQJZG4Vfcgs6WWmfFJIbhbgd5PGHelX0axpLxosUQgw_XmZQG6Vii0ZqmF1C60_sfBqJb5EOc/s640/2012+Jan+12+1st_0063.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Candy and wine</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Even simple candy looks better in Paris.  There are so many delicious edibles in Paris that I am almost never tempted by candy of this sort.  However, at home I would never be able to keep my hands out of jars that looked like this.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Do you have a sweet tooth?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(Joyeux Mardi Gras!!)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Epicerie-confiserie P. Legrand Filles et Fils</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">1, rue de la Banque</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75002, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>

Des bonbons et du vin

Candy and wine Even simple candy looks better in Paris.  There are so many delicious edibles in Paris that I am almost never tempted by cand...

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Epicerie Bastille

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4DQ_kSk-cXOn48kFq27KOAQu-q4uk1JEieaot5FMIsorL7QGKKs3zW7S1zYuXNYhaToZs13Bi8HHkeZdIe_zfotHz-qsnXSDomaNHsCfBBNuvHwcoTVPw_8Kw3NX9vyryMGqsYex1jzg/s1600/2011+april+3+DSC_0247.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638676486131921842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4DQ_kSk-cXOn48kFq27KOAQu-q4uk1JEieaot5FMIsorL7QGKKs3zW7S1zYuXNYhaToZs13Bi8HHkeZdIe_zfotHz-qsnXSDomaNHsCfBBNuvHwcoTVPw_8Kw3NX9vyryMGqsYex1jzg/s640/2011+april+3+DSC_0247.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br />I snapped this petite shop from across the busy Boulevard Beaumarchais. It is narrow among many larger offerings on this wide street at the edge of the Marais, but there was as much activity in and out as a hive of bees.<br /><br /><br /><br />Bon weekend<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br />

Epicerie Bastille

I snapped this petite shop from across the busy Boulevard Beaumarchais. It is narrow among many larger offerings on this wide street at the ...

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Graineterie - Epicerie

<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCSxp_77iDHnFP49MeLHvJlQ8I_3RVxaZPFLOU3u9-Q6ICi9a_hiFwO6FCXsu2jawVb8hkIChLoJBqy4yOrb4U89Te5QSazTnByE7QTxbIpZQd12PVXPadmY8qJcDYJ0j5f1OF0KaDRE/s1600/2010+dec+paris+5+DSC_0187.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585992696661276082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFCSxp_77iDHnFP49MeLHvJlQ8I_3RVxaZPFLOU3u9-Q6ICi9a_hiFwO6FCXsu2jawVb8hkIChLoJBqy4yOrb4U89Te5QSazTnByE7QTxbIpZQd12PVXPadmY8qJcDYJ0j5f1OF0KaDRE/s640/2010+dec+paris+5+DSC_0187.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We found this little shop in December with its herbs and small pot plants displayed out front. I did not find a translation for "graineterie" and I cannot get to my Larousse (from my Baltimore hotel room!)<br /><br />Thank you for any help you can provide in this translation. </span></div><p><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>UPDATE: Thanks to Vreni, Malyss and others, we can definitively say that "graineterie" in this instance is a store in which seeds are sold. Thanks to Starman, I found my beloved Larousse on-line for free. It is interesting that Malyss' dictionary from the late 1800s and the internet dictionary produced the translation, a centuries-old translation! Merci a (no accent marks on laptop) vous. As we say in the South... "Thank you to all y'all!"</em></p><div align="center"><br /><br />Bon mardi!<br /><br /><br /></div></span>

Graineterie - Epicerie

We found this little shop in December with its herbs and small pot plants displayed out front. I did not find a translation for "graine...

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