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    May 2008

 

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Paris Marchés - Specialized Markets

 

Stamps, flowers, books, organic/bio, etc.

 

Specialty markets

Brocantes around Paris and France

Food markets

Flea markets (Marchés aux puces)

The picturesque flea markets of Vanves, de Clignancourt or Montreuil have practically become tourist attractions in their own right.

 

The other markets deal uniquely with either organic foods, stamps, flowers, clothes, books, and animals.

 

3th arrondissement - Clothes

Carreau du Temple.
2 rue Perrée
Métro : Temple ou Arts et Métiers
Boutiques : from Tuesday to Saturday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. to 12 noon
Stands : from Tuesday to Friday 9 a.m. to 12 noon, the weekend open until 12:30

 

4th arrondissement -- flowers, birds and other small, cute animals
Place Louis Lépine and around the quai
Métro : Cité
Marché aux fleurs (Flower Market) : from Tuesday to Sunday 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Marché aux oiseaux (Bird Market) : Sunday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

 

6th arrondissement - organic foods
Boulevard Raspail
between rues du Cherche-Midi and Rennes
Métro: Rennes
Sunday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

 

8th arrondissement - organic foods
Batignolles.
Along Blvd. des Batignolles
Métro : Rome ou Place Clichy
Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

 

8th arrondissement - flowers

Madeleine.
Place de la Madeleine
Métro : Madeleine
From Monday to Saturday 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

 

8th arrondissement - Stamps

Champs-Elysées.
At the angle of  avenues Marigny and Gabriel

Métro : Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau
Thursday, Saturday, Sunday and holidays: all day long

 

11ème arrondissement - Arts and Crafts

 Bastille
Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, between rues Amelot and Saint-Sabin
Métro : Bastille or Bréguet-Sabin
Saturday 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (check with your concierge or visit yourself. I don't see it there every Saturday)

 

12th arrondissement - used clothes, fruits and vegetables, antiques (very animated, lots of flea market items - bargain and don't take first price)

Place d’Aligre and rue d’Aligre between rues de Charenton and Crozatier
Métro : Ledru-Rollin
Every day except Monday between 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

 

14th arrondissement - arts and crafts

In the open area of  boulevard Edgar-Quinet
Métro : Edgar Quinet
Sunday from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

 

14th arrondissement - organic foods
Place Brancusi

Métro : Gaité

Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

 

14th arrondissement - flea market, old papers and maps, clothes, artists
Vanves.
Av. de la Porte de Vanves and rue Marc Sangnier.
Métro : Porte de Vanves
Saturday, Sunday 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

 

17th arrondissement - flowers
Ternes.
Place des Ternes
Métro : Ternes
Every day except Monday from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

 

18th arrondissement - Flea market
av de la Porte de Clignancourt, rue des Entrepôts, and rue Jean-Henri Fabre
Métro: Porte de Clignancourt
From Saturday to Monday 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

 

20ème arrondissement - Flea market, clothes
Puces de Montreuil.
Avenue de la Porte de Montreuil
Métro : Porte de Montreuil
From Saturday to Monday 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.