Flea markets and car boot sales in Chennegy
One sale is announced in Chennegy.
Where it happens
- Bourse aux jouets
Around Chennegy
Sales announced in neighbouring towns.
Holding a stall, or running a sale: what French law says
A vide-grenier is, in law, a "vente au déballage" — a sale held somewhere not normally used for selling. Three rules follow from that, and they apply to a hamlet of two hundred people exactly as they apply to Troyes.
The organiser declares the sale at the town hall
The declaration is made on form Cerfa 13939*01, handed to the mayor against a receipt or sent by registered post, at least fifteen days before the date when the sale is held on private land (article R310-8 of the commercial code). A copy goes at the same time to the Aube department office for employment, labour, social affairs and public protection. Running a sale without declaring it carries a 15,000 euro fine (article L310-5).
Two months a year per site, and no more
No single site may host more than two months of déballage sales in a calendar year (article L310-2). The two months can be split up; they are cumulative, not consecutive. Going over is an offence (article R310-19). That rule, not local preference, is why a village runs one or two big days a year rather than a market every weekend.
Two sales a year for a private seller
Private individuals not entered on the trade register may take part in déballage sales "twice a year at most", and only to sell their own used personal belongings (article L310-2). This is a rule about the person, not the event: it follows you from one village to the next, and the count resets on 1 January. Newcomers are caught out by it more often than anyone else.
The sellers’ register
The organiser keeps a register recording, for every seller, their surname, first names, occupation and address, together with the type, number and issue date of the identity document produced. For a non-professional it also records that a sworn statement was handed in, declaring no participation in two other such events during the same calendar year (article R321-9 of the penal code). The register is lodged within eight days with the prefecture or sub-prefecture for the place of the event: in the Aube, at Troyes, Bar-sur-Aube or Nogent-sur-Seine, depending on the district.
The texts
- Article L310-2, French commercial code
- Article R310-8, French commercial code
- Article L310-5, French commercial code
- Article R321-9, French penal code
- Vente au déballage: the rules (service-public.gouv.fr)
- Form Cerfa 13939*01
References checked on 4 September 2026. The law changes; where there is any doubt, the town hall and the prefecture decide, not this page.