Galeries Lafayette Haussmann

This guide to Galeries Lafayette Haussmann in Paris opens with aviator Jules Vedrines, who in January 1919 defied a city ban to land a biplane on the store's roof to claim a prize the owners had offered. It also looks up at the neo-Byzantine stained-glass dome that glassmaker Jacques Gruber designed in 1912, and at officials who, fearing WWII bombs, had every panel numbered and hidden across the city. Listen for how a haberdashery on rue La Fayette grew into one of the most visited buildings in Paris.