Les Halles Centrales

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Date. ?? 01.1866.Razrabotannye architect Victor Baltard, Central Paris market halls were built between 1854 and 1874 years. Prior to their demolition in 1971market in the heart of Paris, served as material evidence of the transformation of the city and its modernization under the leadership of Georges Eugène Haussmann, prefect of Paris in 1853-1870 godah.No before the construction of the pavilions of openwork light steel structures on this place was another stone market building. It lasted a little more than a decade and was sneseno.V 1845 Baltarda Victor and his colleague Felix Calle appointed architect of the new central market, which was to replace the old trade shop. In 1851 they began the construction of the market, the project included the construction of eight brick buildings whose roofs inside relied on metal arches. September 15, 1851, French President Louis Napoleon (the future Emperor Napoleon III) laid the foundation stone of the new rynka.