Animal Kingdom: Deyrolle and Taxidermy Shops in Paris

“Anyone who’s been to Deyrolle, Paris’s great cabinet of curiosities, has come away feeling they’ve made a marvellous discovery. A feeling Parisians have shared for the near-two centuries that this specialist in taxidermy, entomology and natural history has resided at 46 rue du Bac. Frenchmen and women of all generations remember the name from their school days, printed on educational charts covering such wide-ranging topics as the grape varieties of France, the human circulatory system, the life cycle of frogs and even the perils of alcoholism.”