B'Bright And Airy Home In Moulin Rouge'

Paris, Île-De-France, France

b'Bright And Airy Home In Moulin Rouge'

Rental basis: Entire house or apartment
Number of bedrooms: 1; Number of other rooms with beds: 0

The history of Pigalle, as a red light district, begins in 1881 with the opening, in a room previously occupied by a post office, of the cabaret Le Chat noir de Salis located at 84, boulevard Rochechouart in which Aristide Bruant works. A cantor of interloped Paris, around him settled Bohemia. Bruant took over the cabaret in 1885, moved to rue Victor Massé and renamed it Le Mirliton. In October 1885, Maxime Lisbonne, returning from New Caledonia where he was serving a life sentence, pardoned in 1880, opened La Marmite, he presented daring shows and invented striptease at the Japanese Divan.

In 1889, another cabaret, Le Moulin-rouge, settled at the bottom of the Montmartre hill and quickly it was followed by numerous restaurants and bars. Little by little, it attracts customers from the usual nightlife districts around Porte Saint-martin and Porte Saint-denis, pimps follow them and attend the Élysée-montmartre night ball, at 80, boulevard Rochechouart. The district is immortalized by artists such as Henri de Toulouse-lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Maurice Neumont, Salvador Dalí.

Around 1910, the “middle of the crime” definitively set its sights on the districts of Pigalle and Montmartre. Place Pigalle, cafes, La Nouvelle Athènes, La Kermesse, Le Petit Maxim's, L'omnibus, welcome mobsters and pimps every night. At La Kermesse reigns the Coco Gâteau team. The pimps are looking for girls, to make prostitutes who will be sent to brothels to Argentina and the United States. Game tables are installed everywhere, professional players use make-up cards. The famous Tribout began his career at L'omnibus; after the war he held Le Frolic's.

In 1918, with restrictions on alcohol and light, only brothels remained open after 9 p.m., but they were now in the hands of real "middle men". Customers find a profusion of prostitutes and booze. In the 1930s, Pigalle became the epicenter of the underworld, mobsters set up their businesses there, Place Blanche, Place Pigalle, the surrounding streets (rue Fontaine, rue de Bruxelles), saw their bars flourish and they also settled there their accounts. Their brothels are mainly in the 9th arrondissement. Two thousand girls work in the 177 brothels. In the streets, prostitutes line up every five meters.

The white slave traders can be found at Place Blanche, at the Graff brasserie and at the cafe at Place Blanche, which hosts a private L'aquarium box in its basement, where mobsters meet. They are also found at Le Rat Mort, Le Pigall's and Le Monico, they make champagne flow afloat. They also appreciate the dancing Le Petit Jardin at "26 boulevard de Clichy". Tahiti is one of the pimps' favorite hunting spots. Artists like Joséphine Baker, Duke Ellington, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso and John Steinbeck are slurping and are also very present. At "66 rue de Pigalle", Bricktop's became one of the most famous jazz cabarets of the 1930s.

In 1932, a war started in the middle, the "corsican" mobsters attacked the "parisian" mobsters. Murders take place in front of L'ange rouge (kidnapping and liquidation of Enoch Poznali, known as La Volga), La Boule noire and Zelly's. The police multiplied the raids, roundups and closings of the cabarets. Shortly before the war, heroin arrived in droves. It is sold in bars and restaurants, and its trade is controlled by mobsters like Joseph Rocca-serra, Vincent Battestini and André Antonelli.

The Second World War and the German Occupation did not bring much change to the affairs of the mobsters in the neighborhood. Private circles, underground gambling dens, cabarets, dance halls, nightclubs and brothels continue to receive customers. Gestapo members like to meet at Place Pigalle, at Dante and Le Chapiteau, and Rue de Pigalle, at Chantilly and L'heure Bleue.

At the Liberation, the new Marthe Richard law now prohibits brothels in France, but this decision does not eliminate prostitution. Prostitutes find themselves on the street or work in brothels. In the late 1950s, the band of the Three Ducks, named after the bar that served as their headquarters, extorted from the brothels and the girls who worked there. The most popular bars are Le Charly's and Le Petit Noailles.

In the 1960s, many brothels were prosecuted for pimping and their owners were gradually forced to close them. The number of prostitutes also decreases, however the district remains very popular for partying with its funfairs, its striptease huts and its hostess bars. From the early 1970s,
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Rental Basis: Entire house or apartment

Amenities:
Electric stove / cooktop, Freezer, Armchair, Clothes rack, Towels (free), Free toiletries, Wardrobe/closet, View - garden, Shuttle service, No air-conditioning, No parking, No swimming pool,

Wheelchair Access: No