Rue Mouffetard Market

Parisians have always been keen on fresh foods, and being in the city access has been limited since medieval times.  Every day farmers and producers from the agricultural lands around the city would come into particular streets to sell their wares.  Hence a market within a street.But with the growing civilization of the city there have been rules set about market cleanliness and behavior for hundreds of years, and gradually market stalls were cleaned up and producers moved into shop fronts.  These streets full of shops selling fresh produce are Market streets and while Paris has many it is without doubt that rue Mouffetard is the premier market street of the city.In his novel A Movable Feast the American author Ernest Hemmingway called the street a "that wonderful narrow crowded market street which led into the Place Contrescarpe".  To him it was a market street, but then he lived in the northern part just steps from Place Contrescarpe, while the street stalls of the produce market are at the far southern end at Square Saint-M?dard.