Piles of cheap chickens, some bruised and squashed, are on a stall in Rue Montorgueil where a customer is buying ready-plucked chickens past their best but still fresh enough to eat if consumed on the day of purchase. Just round the corner from the church of Saint-Eustache is the narrow street of Rue Montorgueil filled with shops and pitches on the pavements and famous in Paris for the cheapest food of all, selling off end of the line food at amazingly cheap prices. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that Rue Montorgueil was outside Les Halles... "That's where the chaos was, there was no control, they could do what they liked. When the wholesalers and retailers in the market can't sell off their cheese or chickens because they are too stale and they were no longer able to sell them to their customers, they would sell them off to people who run these pitches there, and shops who specialise in displaying cheaply the stuff that was almost inedible but not quite. It's meant to be taken home and ate that day - if you took a chicken home it was meant for lunch - not wait till the evening." There are price notices for "Poulet cocotte" (stewing chickens) and "Poulet a rotir" (chickens for roasting at 3F 00). 1er and 2eme arrondissements, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.