Mouffetard Street represents Market Street. what does that mean? Parisians have always been keen on fresh foods, and access to the city has been limited since the Middle Ages. Every day farmers and producers from the farmlands around the city come to certain streets to sell their wares and then to a market inside the street; But with the growth of the city's civilization there were rules in place about market cleanliness and behavior for hundreds of years, market stalls were gradually cleaned up and producers moved to storefronts. These streets full of shops selling fresh produce are market streets, and while Paris has plenty, Rue Mouffetard is undoubtedly the city's premier market street.