Les Halles

On page 6 of Bécassine Among the Allies our heroine visits Les Halles, Paris' central market. The market had its roots in medieval Paris, but the pavilions familiar to Bécassine, shown above in 1930, were built in the time of Napoleon III, and demolished in the 1970s. Source. Each pavilion had a speciality: there was the hall of wheat and flour, the hall of leather, the hall of drapes, the hall of wild game, the hall of herbs and vegetables, the hall of veal, the hall of old linen, the hall of wine.