Painted signs and mosaics

A few metres from the Mercerie along the Rue des merciers is a shop many people in France would have been familiar with: Félix Potin. The ...

What could be more normal than a ghost sign for a shop that specialised in haberdashery in Haberdashers' Street? Mercerie [Haberdasher...

Ever since I first noticed it, I always have a look at the Ingersoll ghost sign when I make my way from the City Lit to the bus stops on Ald...

Au chic parisien : it's all in the name! Just when I was taking my pictures, a man stopped to tell me his mother used to come here to bu...

Since the old harbour and the bassins of the Marans to La Rochelle canal are not too far from the Rue des merciers , it is not that surprisi...

' Au bon accueil ' (literally "At the good welcome") is a name usually associated throughout France with restaurants or ho...

Rue des merciers , or Haberdashers' Street, is one of the most typical streets of La Rochelle: timber-framed medieval houses, with their...