Almost immediately after the the Chat Noir moved out of 84 boulevard de Rochechouart, Aristide Bruant and his cafe, Le Mirliton, moved in. The opening of the cafe happened to be at about the same time that Toulouse-Lautrec moved to Montmartre and while Toulouse-Lautrec knew a lot of people who hung out at the Chat [...]
The Old Montmartre
Montmartre has not always been the charming, tourist-bustling neighborhood of Paris that we know it as today. Many of the current outer arrondissements in Paris were, in the not so distant past, individual towns and villages outside of the city. Montmartre was one of these. Before the foundation stone of Sacre-Coeur was laid on June [...]
Montmartre: Chat Noir c.1881-1897
Cafes and cabarets came and went on Montmartre. At the end of the 19th-century, Chat Noir was a phenomenon among the artists of Montmartre between the years of 1881 when Rudolphe Salis opened its doors until 1897, when the bar closed. A good cafe is usually owned and managed by a character of sorts, especially [...]
