:07:01
If you want to jump off
the Eiffel Tower, it's too early.
:07:05
It won't be open for hours.
:07:09
So, if you're looking for a little action,
forget the high-rent district.
:07:14
You'd better come to our neighbourhood.
:07:18
This is Les Halles,
the wholesale food market.
:07:21
We call it the stomach of Paris.
:07:30
Keep your Champs Élysées
and your palace in Versailles.
:07:33
This is the place for me:
brawling, vulgar, smelly, but alive.
:07:44
Beef from Charollais,
pork from Périgord...
:07:48
... lamb from Brittany, veal from Normandy.
:07:56
Brains and kidneys and tripe.
:07:59
Pigs' feet and calves' heads
waiting for sauce vinaigrette.
:08:06
Salmon from the Loire,
sole from the Channel...
:08:10
... lobsters from Corsica...
:08:12
... oysters from Dieppe,
sardines from Lorient.
:08:18
Asparagus from Argenteuil,
oranges from Valencia...
:08:21
... melons from Cavaillon,
cabbage from Aubervilliers.
:08:26
But man does not live by cabbage alone.
:08:31
And if that's what you're in the market for,
just step into the Rue Casanova.
:08:36
This is where the girls are,
or, as we say, the "poules".
:08:40
You can have your choice of
Kiki the Cossack, Amazon Annie...
:08:43
... Lolita, Suzette Wong,
Mimi the Maumau...
:08:46
... and then, of course,
there's Irma la Douce.
:08:49
She was born here, in Les Halles,
in a truck behind the fish market.
:08:53
Like all the others, she takes her coffee
break in the bistro across the street.
:08:58
This is the owner.
He is known as Moustache.