At Crédit municipal de Paris, pawnbroking is back in favor: “don’t hesitate to go through your cupboards”

2023-12-25 17:06:23

Some get to the point. Others, at the pawnshop or even at “My aunt’s”*. The name varies, but in reality they all push the same door in the hope of quickly receiving some money, that of Crédit municipal de Paris. In the heart of the Marais, at 55, rue des Francs Bourgeois (IVe), the oldest Parisian financial institution practices pawnbroking.

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Its fame is largely word-of-mouth. “A good plan that is very often passed down from mother to daughter,” says Fanny Kopf, the director of the pawn shop for four years.