Fodor's Expert Review Passage de la Bourse

This pretty shopping gallery occupies what was originally a convent, which had been on this site since 1681. By the early 1800s, it was mooted as a future town hall but it never came to pass, and at the end of that century it took its current neoclassical shape, a glorious construction of steel and glass. In 2017, the building got a revamp as part of the large Rive Gauche shopping center, and is home to some of the more intriguing local shops, including a fabulously sprawling bookstore, called Grandchamps Etienne.