Les Halles in the morning, looking back to Saint-Eustache in the background. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that he went round the corner from Meat Pavilion number 3 in Rue Rambuteau and into Rue Baltard outside pavilion number 5, the southern half of which was also for meat, and the northern half for charcuterie and tripe. In the background is the church of Saint-Eustache whose huge presence was very much a part of the scene of Les Halles. A nun with averted eyes is looking down concentrating on the ground in front of her as she passes a mobile meat hanging rack on wheels, with huge carcasses suspended on hooks. The meat has been brought out from storage in the hall and into the open in the street because it is to be loaded on to a meat van or lorry. The carcasses each with a ticket have been sold and are waiting to be collected. Nothing would run by clockwork - the "forts" (meat porters) had to keep on working, lorries got caught in a traffic jam, all part of the chaotic scene, the spectacle of chaos. The nun is certainly there shopping for her nunnery. No nun would not walk about here for nothing in the morning. She has come to buy fresh food for her monastery or nunnery. Outside Pavillon 5, Rue Baltard, Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.