Rue Mouffetard Market

The Rue Mouffetard winds down the slope of the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève as one of the oldest thoroughfares in Paris. Its cobblestones follow a Roman road that once connected the city to Italy. Stall owners still arrange their produce and cheeses under the same narrow, curved facades that housed butchers and merchants in the fourteenth century. Ernest Hemingway described this street as a living thing, full of people rushing with bags of bread and wine, a rhythm that remains unchanged despite the centuries.