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This article traces the evolution of stalls (échoppes) in the beginning of the 19th century in Paris. It attempts to understand what these apparently fragile buildings reveal about the popular uses of the street and what decided their disappearance. This work explores how, before Haussmann’s works, popular commercial uses of the city were changed and how public space was viewed and produced as empty space furnished with monuments derived from everyday life and with movements of goods and customers.