Cabaret
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Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, casino, hotel, restaurant, or nightclub with a stage for perform
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, 1890
The Café des Aveugles ("Café of the Blind") in the cellars of the Palais-Royal at the beginning of the 19th century
The composer Eric Satie playing the harmonium at Le Chat Noir (1880s)
The Moulin Rouge in 1893
Édith Piaf
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Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, was a French singer and lyricist. She is regarded as France's greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers in the world. She is best k
Cabaret
…imitation windmill on its roof, and became the birthplace of the dance known as the French Cancan. It helped make famous the singers Mistinguett and Édith Piaf and the painter Toulouse-Lautrec, who made posters for the venue. The Olympia, also run by Oller, was the first to be called a music hall; it opened…
Piaf in 1946
Piaf with Compagnons de la Chanson, 1946
Piaf performing in Rotterdam, with her second husband Théo Sarapo, in 1962
Piaf's grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris