The Moulin Rouge, Jules-Pierre Godreuil, circa 1930

The world's most famous cabared opened in October 1889, a few months after the inauguration of the Eiffell Tower. The owners were called Joseph Oller and Charles Zidler. Their first shows were marked by an extravagance and the crazy attractions of Le Pétomane or the parade of a naked Cleopatra surrounded by young women who were just as nude, which caused a scandal. It was a mad atmosphere in which the show was as much on the stage as it was in the theatre. Aristrocrats or thugs, humble Parisians or bourgeois from fashionable neighbourhoods had fun together in a complete euphoria. La Goulue and Valentin le Désossé, Nini Pattes en l'air, Grille d'Égout, La Môme Fromage, Jane Avril and Yvette Guilbert immortalized by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec celebrate the emblematic dance of the Belle Époque, the French cancan. The early years of the Moulin Rouge, a sanctuary of partying and debauchery, remain legendary.
Today, however, the Moulin Rouge remains a magical place for world cabaret and one of the most emblematic monuments of Paris.

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