Les Halles in the morning, looking back to Saint-Eustache in the background. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that he went round the corner from Meat Pavilion number 3 in Rue Rambuteau and into Rue Baltard outside pavilion number 5, the southern half of which was also for meat, and the northern half for charcuterie and tripe. In the background is the church of Saint-Eustache whose huge presence was very much a part of the scene of Les Halles. Mobile meat hanging racks on wheels are out in the open with huge carcasses suspended on hooks. The meat has been brought out from storage in the hall and into the street because it is to be loaded on to a meat van or lorry. The carcasses each with a ticket have been sold and are waiting to be collected. Nothing would run by clockwork - the "forts" (meat porters) had to keep on working, lorries got caught in a traffic jam, all part of the chaotic scene, the spectacle of chaos. Here a lorry has arrived so the "fort" is carrying meat across the pavement to the lorry parked in the roadway. Outside Pavillon 5, Rue Baltard, Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.

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