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| 2525 Paris - Moulin Rouge |
Located close to Montmartre in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, the Moulin Rouge (Red Mill) is a famous cabaret, best known as the spiritual birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance, became French Can-Can, after crossing the English Channel. It is marked by the red windmill on its roof, and the club's decor still contains much of the romance of fin de siècle France. Today, it is a tourist attraction, offering musical dance entertainment for visitors from around the world.
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| 2526 Lithograph "Bal au Moulin Rouge", by Jules Cheret (1889 / Impremiere Chaix / Atelier Chéret) |
The Moulin Rouge was opened on 6 October 1889, in full Belle Époque (Beautiful Era), in the Jardin de Paris, at the foot of the Montmartre hill, and quickly became a great success. Its creator Joseph Oller and his Manager Charles Zidler were formidable businessmen who understood the public's tastes. The aim of the cabaret was to allow the very rich to come and "slum it" in a fashionable district, Montmartre, which, at the heart of an increasingly vast and impersonal Paris, managed to retain a bucolic village atmosphere; festivities and artists mixed, with pleasure and beauty as their values.
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