THE WASH-HOUSE THAT LITERATURE IMMORTALIZED

WRITTEN ON THE FACADE: "MADAME MINISTER OF CULTURE, PROTECT THIS THEATER"  

For 20 years a developer tried to obtain the site where Zola set "The Drinking Den's" key scene. When the Socialists won municipal elections, the City acquired it instead.

(In 2020) 

Le Lavoir moderne parisien

35 rue Leon 

The novel

Poster by Augustin Daly, New York, 1869 / zoom

Woman ironing by Degas, toward 1869 / zoom

The scene from which the story stems 

Anonymous, 1877 / zoom

For the complete fight in Gervaise by René Clément with Maria Schell, 1956, please click.

After an epic combat the heroine joyously spanks her rival on her bare backside. She will take revenge...

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The second floor is used for events: Please click. On the ground floor, a bar, a salon and a theater...

A singer rehearses

Maya, a voice, a musical in French and English: the story of Maya Angelou with Ursuline Kairson 

Program at the end of March, 2023

...because the City stepped in.

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