Every weekend, many French people love to "Taobao", not to the various shopping malls, but large and small flea market. The flea market is very fire in France, and some holidays also lively, some large flea market has also become a gilded signboard to attract tourists in Europe and around the world.
The world's largest flea market
There are a lot of French famous flea markets, such as Lille, Montreuil, Saint-Ouen etc.. The French Saint-Ouen flea market is the world's largest flea market, where a large concentration of antique and vintage, divided into 16 independent small market, attracting tourists from all over the world, including some celebrities. There are about about 11000000 people to patronize Saint-Ouen flea market average every year, said the weekend here visitors to Eiffel Tower are more than.
Speaking of Saint-Ouen flea market, not a short history. Around 1880, city garbage and refuse collection service is not born, Paris has more than 3 people rely on picking up trash for a living, these people are called "the fisherman". They usually go out for together with the litter thrown out of the old, then to sell in the market. Because these people are often and beggars, thieves together, when the French government banned they trade in Paris city. Then, they are often in small groups outside Paris Saint-Ouen city walls clearing transactions. With the passage of time, more and more people are curious about the Taobao, here gradually developed into a flea market.
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