Moulin Rouge
Iconic Montmartre cabaret with a red windmill, birthplace of the can-can and Belle Époque spectacle since 1889.
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This guide to the Moulin Rouge in Paris opens on the night in October 1889 when a laundress from Alsace named Louise Weber, known as La Goulue, kicked a man's hat off and became the biggest star of the new can-can under founders Joseph Oller and Charles Zidler. It follows how her wild, teasing routine turned an ordinary Montmartre stage into a Belle Époque sensation, and how a limping nobleman named Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, sketching from the balcony in 1891, turned her into the most famous cabaret poster in history. Look toward the entrance, where he used to set up his easel.
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