The déballage at dawn, the dealer who knows exactly what you are looking at, the thing you carry home on the train.

Sharon Santoni has been hunting French antiques for decades, and this is what she learned: Provençal boutis, transferware, landscape paintings, silver, rugs, chandeliers, garden statuary. She names the fairs and the flea markets, lists her own dealers, and closes with a glossary and the phrases you need to bargain in French. Photographs by Joanna Maclennan and Franck Schmitt.

For the friend who plans a holiday around a market. For the collector who has been meaning to learn the vocabulary.