Marché de Charonne

We have sampled half a dozen markets in Paris and certainly will do a few more, but the one we like best so far is the one that's nearest to us, the Marche de Charonne, on the Boulevard de Charonne (we're on Rue de Charonne, perhaps two blocks away). It has all the quality and variety of the much larger Bastille market, but Charonne is lightly attended. One can converse pleasantly (en Anglais) with the merchants, just look (je regard), just stroll, unbothered, unjostled, and enjoy the beautiful panorama of food, spices, produce, meat, seafood, olives, bakery and patisserie, fromage, flowers, etc., and just a bit of household and clothing. Enough of the merchants speak enough English. And you'll hear no other English spoken except your own. We're there regularly on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The Charonne market runs down the median of the Boulevard
Charonne for three blocks, with the Alexandre Dumas Metro
stop smack in the middle; one for all, all for one; the Dumas
station is one of the the surviving Hector Guimard stops, as
you can see in the pic above

Looking the other way

Crabs attempting to escape from a seafood
stall

A very large fish

Resting in one piece, more or less, for the
moment