Rat Shop

I heard one of my clients asking her husband if the area we were talking about exploring was near the "rat shop". I knew at once excactly where she meant - a conversation ensued about the shop which wins the award for "Most Grisly Window Display" hands down.

I'm most impressed by the rats which are displayed in the window, labelled with the date and place of capture, still caught in their traps. "Genuine rat from Les Halles market, captured 1962" etc.

rue des Halles, just before Place Saint Opportune.

Comments

[Craig McGinty]

That is a real beauty!!!

I remember seeing a shop in a town in Dordogne that showed off the strange bugs and beasties that their insect-busting service had dealt with, but there were never any rats.

And to date them, I can't get over that :-)