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q Bateau-Lavoir
13 Pl Emile-Goudeau 75018. Map 6
F1. q Abbesses. Closed to public.
This ramshackle tenement
building took its name from
its resemblance to the laundry
boats that used to operate
along the River Seine. Between
1890 and 1920, it was home
to some of the most talented
artists and poets of the day.
They lived in squalid conditions
with only one tap and took it
in turns to sleep in the beds.
Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Van
Dongen, Marie Laurencin,
Juan Gris, Modigliani and Jean
Cocteau were just a few of
the famous residents. It was
here that Picasso painted Les
Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907,
generally regarded as the
painting that inspired Cubism
as a movement. The original
building burned down in 1970,
but a concrete replica has been
built – with studio space for
up-and-coming artists.
The famous silhouette of the Moulin Rouge nightclub
9 Place des by the architect Hector w Moulin Rouge
Abbesses Guimard, it is one of the few 82 Blvd de Clichy 75018. Map 6 E1.
original Art Nouveau stations.
75018. Map 6 F1. q Abbesses. Tel 01 53 09 82 82. q Blanche. Open
Dinner: 7pm; shows: 9pm and 11pm
This is one of Paris’s most 0 St-Jean daily. & = See Entertainment
pp335–6. ∑ moulinrouge.fr
picturesque squares. It is l’Evangéliste de
sandwiched between the rather Montmartre Built in 1885, the Moulin Rouge
dubious attractions of Place was turned into a dance hall as
Pigalle, with its strip clubs, and 19 Rue des Abbesses 75018. Map 6 F1. early as 1900. The cancan
the Place du Tertre which is Tel 01 46 06 43 96. q Abbesses. originated in Montparnasse,
mobbed by hundreds of tourists. Open 9am–7pm Mon–Sat; 9:30am– in the polka gardens of the
Be sure not to miss the Abbesses 6pm Sun (to 7pm summer). Rue de la Grande-Chaumière,
Metro station with its unusual 5 12:15pm Tue & Thu, 6:30pm but it will always be
green wrought-iron arches Sat, 10:30am Sun. 8 ∑ saint associated with the
and amber lights. Designed jeandemontmartre.com Moulin Rouge,
where the wild
Designed by and colourful
Anatole de dance shows were
Baudot and immortalized in
completed in the posters and
1904, this church drawings of Henri
was the first to be de Toulouse-Lautrec.
built from reinforced The high-kicking
concrete. The flower routines of famous
motifs on the interior Detail of St-Jean “Dorriss girls” such as
are typical of Art l’Evangéliste façade Yvette Guilbert and
Nouveau, while its Jane Avril continue
interlocking arches suggest today in a glittering, Las Vegas-
Islamic architecture. The red- style revue that includes
brick facing has earned it the sophisticated light shows
Entrance to the Abbesses Metro nickname St-Jean-des-Briques. and displays of magic.

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