Flea markets and antique fairs fill France on 12-13 September 2026: 500 sellers at La Ruée Vers l'Autre near Troyes, 350 at the Lambersart street sale, the grape-harvest fair of Mazères.
Sunday morning, on the edge of Troyes.
La Ruée Vers l'Autre sets up its stalls in Sainte-Savine, in the Aube, on Sunday 13 September.
Flea markets and antique fairs fill France on 12-13 September 2026: 500 sellers at La Ruée Vers l'Autre near Troyes, 350 at the Lambersart street sale, the grape-harvest fair of Mazères.
500 sellers at Sainte-Savine, on the edge of Troyes
Sunday, Sainte-Savine breaks its usual quiet. The town sits next to Troyes, in the Aube, and on Sunday 13 September it hosts La Ruée Vers l'Autre, the single biggest sale picked for this weekend anywhere in France: up to 500 sellers, private individuals and local associations, take over the streets from the morning of 13/09/2026 to sell clothes, toys, books, crockery and every kind of curiosity.
Entry stays free for visitors, as it does every year. No professional dealer rents a pitch here year-round: the event runs on donations and drop-offs, carried by residents and associations from the neighbourhood.
Nothing about it stays fixed from one year to the next. Stock shifts with whichever attics empty out, and buyers keep coming back to Sainte-Savine each September rather than somewhere else in the Aube.
The mood stays local and low-key, between association stalls and private sellers clearing out a flat or a cellar. Nothing like the professional antiques fairs nearby, where prices climb fast.
The rest of the weekend, from Le Mans to Brittany
Two street sales open the weekend. In Le Mans, shopkeepers turn the town centre into an open-air market on Saturday, clothes and shoes marked down included, with the town-centre street sale. In the north, the Champ de Courses street sale in Lambersart lines up around 350 sellers across five streets on Sunday, right up to the square by Notre-Dame de Fatima church. Seven street sales a year, in Lambersart alone.
Two more events pass the 200-seller mark. In Bourges, the Place des Marronniers flea market, run by the neighbourhood association, brings around 200 sellers within sight of the cathedral, a back-to-school highlight for shoppers in the Berry. In the Côte-d'Or, the Allées Cavalières car boot sale in Quetigny lines up close to 250 sellers. More than 1,800 metres of stalls, a whole neighbourhood taken over.
Two events run across both days. In the Charente, the La Rochette village festival mixes a car boot sale, a local producers' market and craft stands at the foot of the castle, from 6am Saturday, for a full two days. In the Allier, the Montmarault stamp and postcard fair gathers collectors of stamps, old postcards and coins. Two different worlds of collecting, a few departments apart.
Two associations close out Sunday. In the Ariège, the Mazères grape-harvest fair, run with the town hall, mixes a car boot sale, vintage cars and a threshing demonstration inside the medieval bastide town. In Brittany, the Caulnes cycling club and the Gars de la Rance run their own flea market with no booking needed. Bicycles on one side, grape harvest on the other.
