May 24, 2025: Wandering the elegant buildings of Paris’s 9th arrondissement.
A Grand Magasin (large department store) Printemps Haussmann, was opened in Paris in 1865, and is ‘de la mode et de l’élégance’. the French phrase for ‘upscale’.
This was the time of La Belle Époque in France, and lasted until the First World Wa...