Power Shopper Paris: The French Luxury Products Game for Limousine-Escorted Shoppers Created by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

Power Shopper Paris: The French Luxury Products Game for Limousine-Escorted Shoppers Created by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

Introduction

Once you have all your Maslow Pyramid Needs shopping done in the Bienvenue Subway Game, you can buy luxury goods that your family can sell in times of depression or war to protect your food and beverage supplies. 

People laugh about the Florentine Italians being bean eaters, but if you look cookbooks written by Italians, there are many bean recipes using dry beans.  All of the places I list below also have online stores.

Level 1 – Fancy Snacks and Shopping Bags

Fauchon – various locations around Paris and online

Level 2 – Jewelry

Place Vendôme by the Ritz Hôtel for dragon and tiger gem bracelets.

Level 3 – Sur Measure Designer Fitting Rooms

Faubourg St. Honoré

Level 4 – Copper Cooking Equipment

E. Dehillerin

Level 5 – Sèvres Porcelain Entryway Vases

5-feet-high vases that are always decorated with real gold.

Level 6 – Aubusson Tapestries

This tapestry manufacturing house has been in existence since the time of Louis XIV and is a “Finance Minister Colbert” industry.

Level 7 – Porcelain Dishes from Limoges

The Rue de Paradis display rooms in Paris have all the brands for sale.

For every day, use dishes from Haviland.

For special occasions, use dishes from Bernardaud.

Level 8 – Guerlain Perfumes

The Champs-Elysées store offers all the main scents.

Level 9 – Christofle Tableware and Jewelry

Level 10 – Mariage Frères Teas

The French had an Indian trading center at Pondichery for cloth and food products like the British East India Company. 

(See the novel series Jewel in the Crown about this period in English history.  This book series was also made into a PBS televisions series. 

Comparing the cultures portrayed in the Jewel in the Crown with the Shogun series is a fun introduction to similarities and differences between the two cultures.

You can then watch Indochine with Catherine Daneuve and the Lover by Marguerite Duras as a third contrast to India and Japan in French Indochina.)

Level 11 – Hôtel Crillon for Lunch

This hotel is located on the Place de la Concorde next to the US Embassy right before the rue de Rivoli and the Danton Entrance to the Louvre Art Museum and the antiques dealers of Paris.

Interior Designers know that this is a good game for them!!!

I think Concordes might still leave SF, LA, Chicago, and NY to make the flight a short one.

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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