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1889
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Location:
Paris, France
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Description
Moulin Rouge, the French word meaning Red Windmill, is a cabaret in Paris built in 1889.
The roof features a red windmill, bright lights and dazzle outside that offers to prepare you for what you’ll see inside.
What you’ll see is the can-can. The famous dance that features a line of woman, in petticoats performing high kicks. Both seductive and sometimes comical, always a spectacle.
The Moulin Rouge is featured in movies and art, is visited by tourist, as well as famous performers. Sinatra to Elton John have graced its halls. Perhaps its most famous patron however, is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the painter whose paintings and sketches of the Moulin Rouge and its patrons are legendary.
You can still visit the Moulin Rouge today, for dinner, for a show, for the experience of it.
(Have you or a family member visited? I read a biography on Toulouse-Lautrec and have been “itching” to visit ever since.)
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