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Century-old rats

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Stuffed rats inside the shop

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Category Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Purveyors of Curiosities

Originally founded in 1872, the shop itself has always specialized in pest control, or more specifically as rat killers. They are still in business today. Called the Julien Aurouze & Co and located on Rue des Halles close to Hotel de Ville, it has a very traditional and old fashioned style frontage.

What is unusual about the shop is the way they advertise their pest control skills; with storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps, taxidermied rats, and generally a bunch of stuffed dead rats.

But despite being one of the more unusual shop windows in Paris, it still supplies numerous gadgets and other products for getting rid of unwanted pests, and if their window display doesn't convince you they can get rid of your rats, nothing will.

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• Address 8, rue des halles 1er, Paris, France

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• Anonymous October 14, 2009
  Internet website of Aurouze here : http://www.aurouze.fr
• cobaltbluetony October 8, 2009
  They show something just like this in the animated movie Ratatouille.
• G@ttoGiallo June 19, 2009
  There was a similar shop in place St. André des Arts when I lived in the 5th arrondissement, it closed around 1973. I remember the same unhappy rodents hanging in the shop window.
• Anonymous June 17, 2009
  Aloha from Hawaii. An image of the Julien Aurouze and Co store front, complete with rats caught in traps, was used in the 2007 Movie 'Ratatouille' as a reminder all humans were not thrilled by rats. Rick Hess