On 22-23 August 2026, flea markets and antique fairs fill every French region: Sancoins opens 48 hours of stalls at the Grivelles showground, Ajaccio cuts prices by up to 70%, Porte de Montreuil lines up 300 traders.
Three hundred traders along one avenue.
The Porte de Montreuil flea market sets out on Saturday, August 22, 2026, in eastern Paris, as it does every weekend of the year. The rest of the country fills in around it that same weekend: two days of bargain hunting in the Cher, a clearance sale in Corsica, an evening sale in the southern Alps.
Forty-eight hours at the Grivelles showground
Two full days, Saturday and Sunday: the 48h de Grivelles brocante takes over the exhibition park of Sancoins, avenue Louis et Auguste Massé, in the south of the Cher department.
The stalls do not come alone. The Jeunes Agriculteurs farmers' union and the local AESC association stage a village fair every late August that mixes the second-hand sale with a drift show, a display of trucks and farm machinery, a producers' market, a funfair and a dinner concert.
Two-day sales stay rare on this weekend. Most of the 22 and 23 August dates run for a morning or a single day; here the showground keeps its aisles open from Saturday through Sunday, with the parking and catering of an exhibition park rather than those of a village square.
The crowds cross without mixing: collectors for the early stalls, families for the rides and the producers' market, mechanics for the row of trucks and the drift.
Saturday, from Deauville to Ajaccio
On the Normandy coast, the Deauville monthly trade antiques market returns to the square beside Saint-Augustin church on the fourth Saturday of the month, 22/08/2026, from 8am to 6pm, with professional dealers only: period furniture, paintings, chandeliers, old linen, faience. In Paris, the Porte de Montreuil flea market gathers around 300 traders on avenue du Professeur-André-Lemierre, the capital's home ground for cheap vintage clothing and second-hand tools. Running there since the 19th century, it trades on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, rougher and less touristy than Saint-Ouen.
In the Aisne, the Broc'tout de Ressons-le-Long puts some sixty private sellers on the municipal sports ground, from 6.30am to 6pm, with pitches at 2 euros a metre booked in advance. No dealers, no food traders: the village events committee keeps the ground for households clearing out.
Ajaccio marks everything down.
The Ajaccio town centre clearance sale closes four days of open-air trading on Saturday, with close to 200 shopkeepers taking 50 to 70% off clothes, shoes, bags and jewellery, under the banner of the shopkeepers' federation, the Corsican chamber of commerce and the town hall. At Le Poët, between Sisteron and Laragne-Montéglin, the semi-nocturnal car boot sale turns the usual timetable around and runs from 4pm to 11pm, once the heat drops.
