Marché couvert des Enfants Rouges, Paris
Marché couvert des Enfants Rouges is a covered market whose history reaches back to 1615, when Louis XIII commissioned a small market for the Marais. Its present name arrived in 1772, drawn from a nearby orphanage founded by Marguerite de Navarre in 1524. The familiar explanation says the children wore red as a sign of charity; a 2025 history instead connects the name with children whose mothers died in childbirth.
The market became a protected historic monument in March 1982, after residents, heritage advocates and traders resisted plans for redevelopment. Renovation brought new traders back gradually from 2000. Today, you can enter through three streets, and the stalls and food counters continue the market’s everyday life.
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