New life of Halles de Paris

The second evening of the November Talks series of lectures will be on Monday, November 18. Les Halles, the center of Paris, if not the center of France, the largest Parisian market in the 19th century, the scene of Emil Zola's novel, a megalomaniacal project since the 1970s that made valuable space in sight from the Louvre and Center Pompidou a confusing mess of functions and a park where they should not go after dark. Jean-Marc Fritz, a French architect and urbanist, will present his last reconstruction.