8e. Home of the Palais de l’Elysee, Parisian pied-a-terre of the President of the Republic (No. 55), this street is otherwise dedicated to designer shopping on a par with Bond Street in London or Fifth Avenue in New York. There is the added spice of seeing the great fashion houses on their home territory, gracious buildings and chic strollers. For more of the same, investigate the elegant 19thC passages, glass-roofed arcades such as Galerie Colbert and Galerie Vivienne, off rue des Petits-Champs.