Flea markets and antique fairs in Burgundy-Franche-Comté on 31 October and 1 November: the Place d'Armes flea market in Belfort, the indoor antiques fair in Champagnole, Pontarlier's car boot sale and Saturday antiques in Beaune.
Sunday morning, under the gaze of Bartholdi's Lion. Belfort sets up its flea market on the Place d'Armes on 1 November, a public holiday. Flea markets and antique fairs in Burgundy-Franche-Comté on 31 October and 1 November: the Place d'Armes flea market in Belfort, the indoor antiques fair in Champagnole, Pontarlier's car boot sale and Saturday antiques in Beaune.
The flea market on Belfort's Place d'Armes
The Belfort flea market runs on Sunday, November 1 (01.11.2026), from 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Old Town. Some 150 sellers set up on the Place d'Armes, professional dealers and private sellers clearing out their attics. Entry is free.
The market returns on the first Sunday of every month, from March to December, and has done so for more than fifty years.
The square sits in the historic heart of the city, between Saint-Christophe cathedral, the town hall and the old military buildings inherited from Vauban. Bartholdi's Lion, a pink sandstone colossus carved into the rock on the side of the citadel, keeps watch over the stalls. The stalls stretch over hundreds of linear metres.
The stalls line up regional antiques shaped by Alsatian and Franche-Comté traditions, vintage furniture from the 1950s to the 1980s, old books, postcards of Belfort, Franche-Comté or Alsace, enamel advertising signs, vinyl records, ceramics, porcelain, costume jewellery and collector watches. One dealer lays out Alsatian faience from Sarreguemines. Another lines up Franche-Comté farm tools, books in Vosges dialect and military engravings of the war of 1870. Regulars know the usual sellers, but the best finds often come from newcomers.
The town centre is reached on foot or by public transport, with car parks nearby.
From Saturday in Beaune to Sunday in Pontarlier
The weekend of 31 October starts with two Saturday markets. In Beaune, the market brocante takes over place Carnot from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., a short walk from the Hôtel-Dieu: fewer than fifty professionals sell antiques, regional Burgundian furniture, design pieces, militaria and early period objects, free entry. In the Morvan, the Village des Brocanteurs in Bornoux opens its 1,500 square metres under cover from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., where six to ten dealers show old furniture, light fittings, crockery and tools of yesteryear.
In Pontarlier, the monthly car boot sale of the first Sunday fills place Saint-Pierre from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with about 150 sellers, private and professional. Clothes, toys, crockery, books and furniture sit side by side, under the banner of Commerce Pontarlier Centre. Entry is free.
In Auxerre, the Puces de l'Arquebuse take over the covered market with 100 to 200 sellers, spanning bric-a-brac, antiques, books and records, under the banner of the Lézétéribles association. In Champagnole, the Brocante de la Toussaint brings about forty professionals together at the Oppidum, from 7 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., indoors and with free entry. Each stand measures 8 by 4 metres and rents for 40 euros. Sellers set up from 6 a.m., and parking is free.
In the Côte-d'Or, the Emmaüs Dijon street sale opens its Villers-les-Pots premises from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., indoors, as on every first and third Sunday of the month: furniture, clothes, crockery, books and trinkets at solidarity prices.
In Trévenans, a village next to Belfort, the Sports et Loisirs association holds its toy fair in the village hall on 1 November. Toys, games and second-hand childcare items change hands ahead of the end-of-year holidays.
