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.