Les Halles at night in the entrance to a covered through road linking the Baltard pavilions. Temperature controlled refrigerated trailers that deliver to the meat pavilions are brought in by towing trucks. The trailers that were brought in through one entrance are parked at a certain angle for half the length of the road, and the angle is reversed for the other half of the road where they were brought in through the other entrance. A man sits quietly reading whilst in the background there is activity of loaded upright barrows being taken away. Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.