A major fire devastated the Marché des Enfants-Rouges, a historic covered market in Paris’s 3rd arrondissement, in the early hours of Monday, October 12, 2026. The alarm was raised around 4:15 a.m. According to a statement from the Paris Fire Department on the X PompiersParis page, the flames engulfed the market’s entire 1,000-square-meter area. Nine fire hoses, including two high-pressure hoses, were used to bring the blaze under control. The mayor of Paris Centre (the administrative district comprising the capital’s first four arrondissements), Ariel Weil, confirmed that the fire had been contained but that the market had been completely devastated, urging people to avoid the area around Rue de Bretagne.
Founded in 1615—or in 1628, according to historian Jacques Hillairet—the Marché des Enfants-Rouges is considered the oldest covered market in Paris. It owes its name to the Enfants-Rouges hospice, a 16th-century orphanage whose children wore red clothing, the color of Christian charity. Located in the Marais district, it housed food vendors, fruit, vegetable, and bread stalls, florists, and food service outlets. The building has been listed as a French historic monument since March 8, 1982.
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