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An architecturally distinctive department store opposite the Pont-Neuf, offering chic clothing and products.
16 years: during all these years, La Samaritaine has seemed to evaporate from the Parisian landscape, little by little forgotten, before the beginning of huge works leading to the inauguration of the place in great pomp last June. Founded in 1869 by Ernest Cognacq, the Samaritaine department store had, over the course of its history, grown to occupy four buildings. Closed in 2005 after its purchase by LVMH, it is the subject of a complete transformation, restoring its luster to the place. The glass roof, the ceramics and mosaics on the facade, the majestic staircases: if the place now meets modern standards, it is with the good taste of having kept the initial aspect intact. Today, the building opposite the Pont-Neuf houses a 72-room luxury hotel. The other buildings include a store - the Samaritaine, therefore, where you can no longer find everything, as the advertisements used to say, but a lot of clothes and chic products - an exhibition gallery, offices, various shops, as well as a crèche and social housing. Architecturally, one of the façades of the complex - the one on rue de Rivoli - is clad with a vast and original wall of corrugated glass. Outside, a pedestrian forecourt on the west side has been created: it allows you to admire this complex, which we can logically assume will very quickly become the commercial powerhouse of the heart of Paris. A visit here is almost compulsory!
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Le monument est magnifique on voyage dans le passé. Les vendeurs sont très courtois, donc que du bonheur. Il faut y passer lorsqu'on est dans le quartier
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Les vendeurs discutaient entre eux pour certains, et pour la majorité ils etaient dans leurs stands le nez collé devant leurs téléphones portables..
Ils ne regardent même pas passer les clients, qui sont deja peu nombreux; et ils ne saluent pas...
C est très dérangeant en tant que client de voir cela..et surtout de ne voir aucun responsable recadrer tout ça...
Jai attendu longtemps au stand beauté YSL, tout cela pour m entendre dire que les testeurs de rouge à lèvres ne représentaient pas la réalité de leur stock; qu il n y avait pas les produits que je demandais, et que je devrais aller chez le concurrent Sephora..
Les bras m en sont tombés....
Javais de bons achats a faire, en bien j ai pris la poudre d escampette devant si peu d entrain...