Le dĂ©part des fruits et lĂ©gumes du cĹ“ur de Paris: The Loss of Paris’s Les Halles
In 1969, Paris’s ancient central market of Les Halles, having grown enormously, and congested to boot, moved to Rungis, just on the outskirts of the city. Émile Zola wrote of the old Les Halles in his The Belly of Paris, volume three of Zola’s twenty novels examining the French bourgeoisie, civil conflict, hunger, and poverty. … More Le dĂ©part des fruits et lĂ©gumes du cĹ“ur de Paris: The Loss of Paris’s Les Halles