Christmastime in Les Halles at the flower market early on a damp Saturday morning in December, looking through the fenced off entrance controlled by a policeman. It is after a rainstorm because the road is wet. The flower market is taking place between the Baltard pavilions on the covered through roads. The policeman, wearing a cape to keep warm, would be from a brigade of the commissariat des Halles Centrales. Behind the young man leaving the market, a gardien whose job is to move the fence back and forwards is standing with the policeman. The gardiens worked with the policemen of Halles Centrales to control the entrance. The last stall has got a plastic screen against the wind and the rain. The road is still clean, not covered in rubbish, so the market is only just open to the public. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that the young man leaving... "doesn't work there - you can tell by his face. He is carrying boxes out - he might be taking them to a diable (barrow) he's hired or to a cafe across the road." The carreau forain in Rue Berger, Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.