Provins is one of the four towns in the County of Champagne (with Troyes, Lagny, Bar-sur-Aube) where, between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, major annual trade fairs were held that brought northern Europe into contact with the Mediterranean world. But it is the only one to have admirably preserved the architecture and urban planning that characterized these large cities of medieval fairs, which led to it being inscribed on the World Heritage List on December 13, 2001. The temporary exhibition proposed by the Musée de Provins et du Provinois and the Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de l'arrondissement de Provins will present, through a wide selection of original archival documents, the city and its fairs, from the origins to the international recognition of Provins as the cradle of the great European trade and major financial center of the twelfth