Les Halles at night in the famous Au Pied de Cochon bar. In Paris at that period, itinerant artists would go round cafes, restaurants, bars and streets sketching people or groups - part of the entertainment because people used to love watching the artists and people being sketched. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that in the bar of Au Pied de Cochon, "I was behind the counter - they let me take pictures there occasionally when they were not too busy and I would not be in the way. From my position on the other side of the bar I caught this itinerant artist sketching Roger le Portugais, the strongest of the Forts des Halles." Au Pied de Cochon was divided into two parts, one for tourists which was much more expensive and one for the workers of Les Halles who paid a greatly reduced price for their onion soup and would stand at the counter and break through the crust of grilled onion on top to get at the soup. The part reserved for tourists and people having a night out was separated from the bar by a screen so that they would not have their meal disturbed by seeing lots of bloodstained butchers who came in for a quick drink or a meal at the bar counter. Rue Coquilliere, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.