{"id":63514,"date":"2016-01-13T06:28:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T13:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=63514"},"modified":"2021-12-29T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T21:08:28","slug":"richelieu-drouot-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=63514","title":{"rendered":"March\u00e9 aux puces, Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On one rainy Saturday morning, we stepped out on our balcony in Paris and discovered that somehow, quietly and magically, a sea of rain tarps stretching as far as the eye could see appeared along Boulevard Haussmann overnight. <\/p>\n<p>These tarps were covering one of Paris&#8217;s famed <em>march\u00e9 aux puces<\/em> (flea markets).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9453.jpg\" alt=\"sm-IMG_9453\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9453.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9453-595x397.jpg 595w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9453-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, try as I might, I searched high and low in both English et en fran\u00e7ais, and I couldn&#8217;t find any information about this particular <em>march\u00e9 aux puces<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>As such, I have nothing to say other than we meandered the market for quite a while looking for oddities and curiosities. We found plenty of both.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-63514 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=63515'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9453-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9453-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9453-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=63516'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9678-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9678-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9678-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=63518'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9680-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9680-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9680-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=63519'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9681-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9681-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9681-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=63520'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9682-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9682-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9682-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=63521'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9683-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9683-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9683-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=63522'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9691-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9691-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9691-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=63528'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9877-400x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9877-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sm-IMG_9877-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" 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