
{"id":238225,"date":"2021-04-29T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=238225"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:25:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:25:03","slug":"pigalle-district-a-parisian-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/digital-channel\/pigalle-district-a-parisian-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigalle district: a Parisian legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Pigalle the social and moral boundaries collapsed before the revelry of popular culture. There, where for more than a century the immense sails of the Moulin Rouge\u2014the most famous cabaret in the world, a neighbor of the Montmartre Sacre Coeur Basilica \u2014have turned, art, eroticism and sexual freedom revolutionized Paris.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-9-1140x681-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238227\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-9-1140x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pigalle\" width=\"1140\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-9-1140x681-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-9-1140x681-1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-9-1140x681-1-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-9-1140x681-1-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-9-1140x681-1-750x448.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among these streets and buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, among emblematic cafes and cabarets, famous artists coexisted and were inspired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-3-1140x755-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238228\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-3-1140x755-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-3-1140x755-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-3-1140x755-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-3-1140x755-1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-3-1140x755-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-3-1140x755-1-750x497.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vincent van Gogh liked to walk along the Seine riverside of Pigalle, a little away from the aristocracy of the Louvre and the gardens of the Tuileries. From these journeys, the Dutch painter was inspired to create several of his oil paintings. The boulevard de Clichy is one of them. It is about the daily recreation of one of the main arteries of the neighborhood. Influenced by impressionism and by his friendship with Paul Victor Signac, an important neo-impressionist painter, Vincent experimented with chromatic contrasts in this piece and applied the colors with subtle brush strokes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The artist knew very well where he walked. He was a regular at the Tambourin, a cafe installed on the boulevard de Clichy itself, where he had a love affair with its owner, the Italian Agostina Segatori.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proof of this love is the painting \u201cAgostina Segatori sitting in the caf\u00e9 du Tambourin,\u201d painted in 1887 and exhibited, together with his famous flower still lifes, in one of the two exhibitions that the Dutchman made in the aforementioned caf\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pigalle, named after the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, reached its peak of excitement and popularity in 1889, with the inauguration of the Moulin Rouge. The cabaret, built by Josep Oller and Charles Zidler, then raised its curtains to offer artistic variety shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-5-1140x755-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238229\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-5-1140x755-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-5-1140x755-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-5-1140x755-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-5-1140x755-1-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-5-1140x755-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-5-1140x755-1-750x497.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was the time when the French cancan was born, which found its place on the stage of the Moulin Rouge. With erotic touches, extravagant decorations and the sure invitation to have fun, the new place became fashionable and started being frequented, even by French high society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The City of Light then lived its golden age, known in history as the Belle \u00c9poque, marked, in turn, by the second Industrial Revolution. A historical coincidence: the Universal Exposition of Paris also took place in 1889, where the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated as its main attraction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-6-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238239\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-6-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-6-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-6-1-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-6-1-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-6-1-750x486.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-6-1-1140x739.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A regular at the Moulin Rouge was Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, the French painter and poster artist who\u2014like few others\u2014recreated the Paris nightlife of the late 19th century in his works. Many of the famous cabaret posters bore his signature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legend has it that Toulouse-Lautrec spent a large part of his time in the cabaret, attentive to rehearsals and performances. While he was sipping a brandy, he made sketches inspired by the scenes he witnessed, and which he would later paint in his atelier, installed a few blocks away. Hence his paintings, almost photographic, of dancers, wild kisses or gentlemen in hats and black tailcoats in the middle of a bacchanalia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238238\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-1-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-1-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-1-750x462.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-1-1140x703.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In one of Toulouse-Lautrec\u2019s lesser-known posters announcing one of the seasons at the Moulin Rouge, writer and playwright Oscar Wilde can be discovered among the public. It is not surprising, because the Irish literary genius was another who used to prowl the place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The author of \u201cThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u201d settled in Paris after being accused \u201cof sodomy and gross indecency\u201d and serving a two-year prison sentence with forced labor in London, for his sexual behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toulouse-Lautrec was present at the trial and drew a portrait of Wilde, which he titled \u201cThe Indecent Poet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On February 11, 1897, while Oscar was still serving his sentence in the prison of Reading, in England, his play \u201cSalome\u201d was premiered at the Theater de L\u2019Oeuvre, in Paris. Henry Toulouse-Lautrec had designed the program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the prison nightmare\u2014from which he never recovered\u2014what better environment for a sensitive human being, cultivator of hedonism and beauty, homosexual and revolutionary like Oscar Wilde, than The City of Love to go into exile? The last years of his life were spent touring the French capital under the pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth. Ruined, ill and alcoholic, he often ended up visiting the clubs in the Pigalle neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 20th century made its entrance and various cabarets, bars and nightclubs flooded Pigalle at that time. Brothels flourished and the area started being known as the red light district of Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-13-1140x802-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238237\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-13-1140x802-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-13-1140x802-2.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-13-1140x802-2-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-13-1140x802-2-1024x720.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-13-1140x802-2-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-13-1140x802-2-750x528.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-8-1140x771-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238236\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-8-1140x771-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-8-1140x771-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-8-1140x771-1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-8-1140x771-1-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-8-1140x771-1-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-8-1140x771-1-750x507.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-15-1140x813-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238235\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-15-1140x813-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-15-1140x813-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-15-1140x813-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-15-1140x813-1-1024x730.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-15-1140x813-1-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-15-1140x813-1-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-15-1140x813-1-350x250.jpg 350w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-15-1140x813-1-750x535.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In La Place Pigalle, kilometer zero of the neighborhood, there was no room for sleep. It is a hotbed where various bohemian characters met. One of those artists captivated with her voice. It is Edith Piaf, who would become a French song legend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cElle fr\u00e9quentait la Rue Pigalle\u201d (She used to frequent Pigalle Street), is a song interpreted by Piaf, composed by her lover Raymond Asso in 1939, which tells the love story between a prostitute and a man of rank. Its first stanza also portrays that stage in a certain way:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She frequented the rue Pigalle<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/lyricstranslate.com\/en\/elle-fr%C3%A9quentait-la-rue-pigalle-she-frequented-rue-pigalle.html#footnote1_ul2c68h\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\/<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> She smelled of cheap vice\/ She was utterly black from sins\/ With a very pale poor face\/ But in the depths of her eyes there was\/ Like something miraculous\/ Which seemed to put a bit of blue sky\/ Into the utterly filthy sky of Pigalle<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pigalle has very little left of red today. From a seemingly forbidden, truculent and libertine neighborhood, it became one of the most touristic in the country. Especially after 2001, after the Hollywood mega-production <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moulin Rouge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann and with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in the leading roles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there are still some neon signs, sex shops, category X movie theaters, street painters and singers, surreal characters and, above all, the Moulin Rouge Cabaret, as a symbolic source of that bohemian legend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-16-1140x752-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238234\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-16-1140x752-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-16-1140x752-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-16-1140x752-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-16-1140x752-1-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-16-1140x752-1-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-16-1140x752-1-750x495.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-14-1140x780-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238233\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-14-1140x780-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-14-1140x780-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-14-1140x780-1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-14-1140x780-1-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-14-1140x780-1-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-14-1140x780-1-750x513.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-10-1140x708-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238232\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-10-1140x708-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-10-1140x708-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-10-1140x708-1-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-10-1140x708-1-1024x636.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-10-1140x708-1-768x477.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-10-1140x708-1-750x466.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-12-1140x704-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238231\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-12-1140x704-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-12-1140x704-1.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-12-1140x704-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pigelle-12-1140x704-1-1024x632.jpg 1024w, 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