I had a lot of friends there, in that village-like quarter;

I was a harmless photographer, considered mildly

obsessed. I didn't understand these technocrats'

ideas, with their "geometric" goals labeled profitability,

specialization, division of labor, and efficiency. All of this

was in diametric opposition to everything I came to Les

Halles at night to seek, everything I was trying to picture.

Robert Doisneau