A cheap chicken stall in Rue Montorgueil selling ready-plucked chickens past their best but still fresh enough to eat if consumed on the day of purchase. Rue Montorgueil was just round the corner from the church of Saint-Eustache. This narrow street was filled with shops and pitches on the pavements and was famous in Paris for the cheapest food of all, selling off end of the line food at amazingly cheap prices. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that Rue Montorgueil was outside Les Halles... "There's the atmosphere I remember - struggling through all this chaos of the market. Trying to bring order to chaos, that's what the photographer does or tries to do. That's what it was like in the street - dingy and dark, where everything is cheap. It's dirty and untidy. That's where the chaos was, there was no control, they could do what they liked. When the wholesalers and retailers in the market can't sell off their cheese or chickens because they are too stale they would sell them off to people who run these pitches there, and shops who specialise in displaying cheaply the stuff that was almost inedible but not quite. It's meant to be taken home and ate that day - if you took a chicken home it was meant for lunch - not wait till the evening." 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.