5 thoughts on “Entrance to a cabaret, Paris, 1912

  1. Happy new year and greetings from Paris !
    Nice photograph from one of those unsavory but so exciting places at the feet of Montmartre in the great days of 1870 to 1914 ! It was situated at 100 boulevard de Clichy. The name on the entrance is “Cabaret of mobsters”, truly inviting nope ? It was of that in this place but all of Paris came in those cabarets. Today it is a theater:
    http://www.montmartre-secret.com/article-la-taverne-des-truands-montmartre-68809490.html
    english description:
    http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2015/10/29/cabaret-des-truands/
    Best.
    F.

    • Thanks/Merci! I haven’t been to Paris in a while but it is a truly magnificent city. As you can probably tell I love the decor and style of the Belle Epoque/Edwardian era. Thanks for the information!

      • Hi Matthew ! No problem, je t’en prie !
        Another very famous cabaret: l’enfer (hell !)
        http://golem13.fr/tavernes-etranges-paris-1900/
        today a Monoprix supermarket ! (Another part of french history: the popular low price stores of the 1930’s, during the great depression and using the American marketing tricks: striking easy to remember names summarizing the brand.)

        And a few other very special ones:
        http://golem13.fr/tavernes-etranges-paris-1900/
        the spider, the neant (nothingness: great program !)
        there was also the Miriliton, Bruant’s cabaret… now a strip-tease topless bar…

        I also found a book about Montmartre with a unique photograph of the Muse of Montmartre. Marguerite Stump. Beginning in 1896 the artists and inhabitants of Montmartre began a carnival called the Vachalcade (approx translate: “the cowalcade”) with a young woman as Muse, the first one was this girl called Marguerite, an 18 years old needlewoman…

        best

        Franck

      • Thanks for the links, I’ll check them out sometime soon. Such an interesting era in western history, too bad it all ended with a catastrophic war. I posted a picture of L’Enfer Cabaret a while back and of course Moulin Rouge.

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