Christmastime at Les Halles at the flower market on a damp Saturday morning in December. It is after a rainstorm because the road is wet. There are no crowds early in the morning. The big buyers are there but the market is not yet open for ordinary people. Vans are being unloaded and buyers - all men - are shopping. Market traders are emptying their merchandise out of trucks and vans parked in Rue Rambuteau to take their flowers and greenery into the covered through road between the Baltard pavilions where they will set up their stalls inside the flower market. The empty vans are gathered all around - the market traders take the flowers inside and leave the vans parked outside. A porter is just leaving the market with his customer's purchases and is pushing a two-wheeled trolley packed with boxes of flowers and a pile of mistletoe and greenery on top. The heavy but well balanced load is on its way to be delivered. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls... "He's just passed me and I've turned round and taken the picture as he is going down the street." Behind him two porters are waiting with their diables, or barrows, for buyers to hire them. Carreau forain in rue Rambuteau with the cafe Au Vouvray on the corner of rue Mondetour on the left, Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.