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Les Halles in Paris -- For 8 centuries, Les
Halles was the city's major wholesale fruit, meat, and vegetable
market. In the 19th century, Zola called it "the underbelly of
Paris." The smock-clad vendors, beef carcasses, and baskets of
vegetables all belong to the past, for the original market,
with zinc-roofed Second Empire "iron umbrellas," has been torn
down. Today the action has moved to a steel-and-glass edifice
at Rungis,
a suburb near Orly. In 1979 the Forum des Halles, 1-7
rue Pierre-Lescot, 1e, opened. |
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