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Bakers and quite a few little food shops (the Casino chain for example, and traiteurs) tend to be open on Sunday mornings - and very firmly shut on Mondays. The sort of bakers which are also patissiers are also often open on a Sunday afternoon - you'll probably find some of the Ile de la Cité at least. OTOH in Paris I doubt if everywhere food-selling shuts on a Monday as it tends to in the provinces.

Versailles is totally overblown, but one visit and you really, truly understand why the revolution happened. Imagine the reaction of the crowds who marched out there from Paris determined to bring the royal family back with them. (Yes, I did the French Revolution for A Level...)

The French have a reputation for rudeness, but I have always found them wonderfully helpful as long as I try to use their language not my own. Quite often their helpfulness extends to correcting my grammar of course!

Have you visited the Conciergerie, talking of the Revolution? It's extremely interesting, though inevitably rather sad.