The giant food market of Les Halles at night. Organised with an incredibly complicated structure and hierarchy, some of the Baltard pavilions have both wholesale and retail markets and retail sales can also take place in the "carreau" after the wholesale market has ended. Between Pavilions 7 and 8, a deliveryman is unloading crates of cauliflowers from a flatbed platform lorry with a Paris number plate and the word "Seine". Pavilions 7 and 8 are for retail fruit and vegetables, wholesale vegetables, leaf vegetables ("verdure") and large vegetables ("gros legumes"). Pavilion 7 was also where the wooden boxes and crates ("cageots") for all kinds of merchandise were stored. Pavilion 8 had in its basement the cloakrooms for some of the elite porters - "les forts des Halles". Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that... "the sale would commence at 4 a.m. They were busy unloading the vegetables to set up the stalls on the pavement outside pavilions, and closed down at 8 o'clock. The man on the flatbed lorry is unloading the vegetables alongside Pavilion 8 so that the stall can be open at 4 a.m. and closed at 8 o'clock when all the debris is cleaned up and removed and disposed of after being picked over by the people of Paris getting their free vegetables." Setting up a stall in the long covered through road by Pavilions 7 and 8 and with other pavilions stretching far into the background, Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.