Les Halles in the area of the Carreau forain. On a street corner a vegetable seller has his pitch in front of a shop which sells First Communion suits for boys and gowns for girls, and all the objects necessary for a First Communion from candles to prayer books and all the accoutrements of religious ritual. The vegetable seller with his slatted wooden boxes containing an assortment of fresh produce is standing at his cash desk waiting for a customer. Outside the shop there is a steel railing at the base of the window with a notice fixed to it "Please do not lean bicycles against the window" - "Ne pas appuyer les bicyclettes sur la vitrine" - the reason being if it got broken it would be very expensive because it was curved glass. Not all market traders had a cash desk where the customers would go up to pay. Some market traders did not bother and kept money in their bag, others had an improvised "desk" made from an upturned wooden box that they put on top of a pile of boxes, and other merchants bought a special desk for their sales. Near rue de Rivoli, Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.