Les Halles at night - Le Carreau des Halles, pointe Saint-Eustache, with the huge church of Saint-Eustache in the background. In the complicated organisation of the central food market, the area alongside the church was a "quartier des legumes" where in specific zones different vegetables could be sold at specific times, either wholesale or retail. The Law of 1896 (La Loi de 1896) was wide open to interpretation and outside the pavilions certain "arrangements" permitted wholesale or retail trade. After 11 p.m. lorries were allowed in to Les Halles to begin unloading the mesh sacks, baskets, wooden boxes and crates containing a variety of produce. Watercress, artichokes, tomatoes, lettuces and mushrooms were just some of the fresh produce sold in this part of the vast market of Les Halles. Wooden and metal barrows, known as "diables", are lined up waiting to be used and one barrow is heavily loaded with boxes ready for delivery. A policeman - a "gardien de la paix" for Halles Centrales (HC) - is adjusting the signs fixed to the lamppost. La pointe Saint-Eustache, Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.