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Average lunch €80, average dinner €200Tucked away in the heart of Saint Germain des Pres, this snug shop-front table with a white facade and interior is the best place in Paris for a fix of impeccably fresh oysters, which are delivered directly from France's Marennes-Oléron region on the Atlantic coast.

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This is to some degree the fount of the modern luxury goods industry, and the fact that Sèvres not merely survived the French Revolution but went on to become a state monopoly that has survived to this day and still prospers points to the important fact that the Versailles shop-front kept up by Louis XV, Mesdames de Pompadour and du Barry, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, was only one aspect of the larger enterprise.

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So now, after blowing this guy away and instead of standing there like a poor excuse for a shop-front mannequin, my Brotherhood (Sisterhood?) of Steel compatriot Miss Lady Lyon starts her “finish the game now in the most clichéd and overwrought manner possible” script.

Archive 2008-11-01 Ben Abraham 2008

I thought of the many curtained shop-front windows in the East Village and scattered across the city with their ubiquitous neon signs advertising futures foretold, and the psychic hotlines advertised in the paper.

The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010

So now, after blowing this guy away and instead of standing there like a poor excuse for a shop-front mannequin, my Brotherhood (Sisterhood?) of Steel compatriot Miss Lady Lyon starts her “finish the game now in the most clichéd and overwrought manner possible” script.

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In French, the term for window-shopping is lèche vitrine, which transliterates as lick window hence the suitably sensuous track by Aphex Twin called “Windowlicker” and has a wonderful salaciousness, evoking the shop-front smudges of classic shopping.

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It was a shop-front a few blocks away, always filled with students.

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Even so, Lymington does 99p stores differently: the company running the shop was persuaded by local conservationists to dismantle its illuminated sign and put up a shop-front more in keeping with the town.

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In French, the term for window-shopping is lèche vitrine, which transliterates as lick window hence the suitably sensuous track by Aphex Twin called “Windowlicker” and has a wonderful salaciousness, evoking the shop-front smudges of classic shopping.

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

The food is French merged with molecular gastronomy – we are served a warm pea soup with truffle foam in a shot glass as an amuse-bouche – and yet as you look out onto a street from your shop-front window-seat, all manner of shenanigans are taking place.

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