Some Brocantes near Alençon
Just some of the dozens of antiques and secondhand shops around Alençon in Lower Normandy – click on the map to enlarge it. If you plan on making a special trip to a particular brocante, I would suggest you ring ahead to check opening hours as these are often irregular.
The range of stuff you’ll find in places calling themselves “brocantes” varies enormously – some are little more than scrapyards, some have a lot of repro furnitue and knick-knacks, others are more like very expensive antique dealers, but most are in between the three. You’ll find a lot of overpriced rubbish but now and then you can turn up a bargain, if you’re lucky!
Among the things we have personally bought from brocantes have been a kitchen dresser, a mahogany china display cabinet and a number of antique light fittings. The dresser and china cabinet needed a lot of work as they were in a very distressed state, but in the end they were worth it (though if you cost in the hours we spent restoring them, it may have been cheaper to buy from Sotheby’s).
- 1. Ballanger Catherine
103 Grande Rue
61000 ALENCON
02 33 32 16 60 - 2. Dolo Annie
142 av Quakenbrück
61000 ALENCON
02 33 27 79 50 - 3. Chauvin Françoise
r Moulin à Vent
61250 CONDE SUR SARTHE
02 33 82 96 44 - 4/5. Au Temps Passé (SARL)
21 r Paul Bert
72600 MAMERS
02 43 97 61 29 - 6/7. Julienne André/Racine José
La Gare
61250 LONRAI
02 33 26 40 49 - 8. Lunel Annie
48 r Gare
72170 BEAUMONT SUR SARTHE
02 43 97 50 40 - 9. HUVE Philippe
lieu-dit Bonnet
61420 SAINT DENIS SUR SARTHON
02 33 27 36 31 - 10. La Maison d’Horbé
La Grande Place
61360 PERRIÈRE
02 33 73 18 41
