Les Halles on a spring morning in Rue Baltard. The trees have their spring leaves. Porters with their rented diables - heavy wooden and metal barrows - are waiting for customers so they can load up with boxes of fresh fruit and vegetables, fish and meat, dairy and other fresh produce, and make deliveries. It is early in the morning and the centre of the roadway is being swilled down to clean it up after the rubbish has been cleared away by the little trains which have taken it away to barges on the Seine to be disposed of. Men would come with hoses which they connected up to water points in the streets and armed with brooms would then wash and sweep the roadways and the water would drain down the streets to the Seine. The scene looks calm and quiet. Over the road standing near advertising hoardings outside one of the Baltard pavilions, Pavillon 7, is a policeman who would be from a brigade of the commissariat des Halles Centrales. Rue Baltard, Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.