Monday, September 28, 2026

🎨 Culture

The Marche Is Social Infrastructure

The weekly market is where a French town sees itself. It is a fixed day, it has run for centuries in some places, and it functions as much as an assembly as a shop.

Go to your local market at the same time on the same day for a month. The difference between shopping and belonging is repetition.

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