Marché couvert des Enfants Rouges
Covered market hall in the Marais dating to sixteen fifteen, packed with international food stalls.
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This guide to the Marche couvert des Enfants Rouges in Paris opens in 1994, when a local mayor proposed replacing the crumbling four-hundred-year-old market hall with a parking garage. It traces the market back to its 1615 founding by royal carpenter Perceval Noblet, and the orphans dressed in red whose memory gave it its name. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier organized his neighbors to fight for the hall, turning a 1995 local election into a referendum on its fate. Listen for the oak pillars still holding up the original roof.
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