As reports IfoAppleStore, Apple's European VP, Pascal Cagni, told the french newspaper Presse Océanie that a Paris location could be opened as soon as this year.

He said that Apple has long been planning a store in Champs Elysées. However, the first location will open somewhere else in Paris, then a second location, in Champs Elysées, should open in 2007.

Apple has been rumoured to be planning Apple Store locations in Paris since it started opening its first stores in Europe. According to a report published last year Steve Jobs himself had confirmed a Paris store in 2007. Jobs was questionned by a Mac fan while he was visiting with Jonathan Ive the Regent Street store in London.