During her last state visit to France, in June 2014, the Queen of England was hand-delivered a bouquet of her favorite roses, Pierre de Ronsard.
Elizabeth II, who had already fallen under the spell of the flower market on the Île de la Cité (4th arrondissement), during her first visit to Paris in 1948, even gave it her name that day.
Two years after the death of the sovereign, the famous Parisian market is preparing to be fundamentally transformed.
Because although it retains this picturesque appearance which attracts many tourists and Parisians, the place has faded somewhat over the years.
Like the metal structures, glass roofs and zinc roofs of halls 1 and 2, which have suffered the ravages of time since the reconstruction of the pavilions in the 1920s.
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