when will construction on les halles be finished
For several years, the site of the markets was an enormous open pit, nicknamed le trou des Halles (trou = hole), regarded as an eyesore at the foot of the historic church of Saint-Eustache. Construction was completed in 1977 on Chatelet-ChÃ¢telet-Les, Halles'paris s new urban railway. hubn the 1850s, Victor Baltard designed the famous glass and iron buildings, Les Halles, which would last until the 1970s. Les Halles was known as the Belly of Paris, as it was called by Ãmile Ã©mile zola in his Novel Le ventre De, paris which is set in the busy marketplace of the 19th. century