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).
The Lavoir Moderne Parisien
35 rue Leon
The novel
Woman ironing by Degas, towards 1869 / zoom; Poster by Augustin Daly, 1869 / zoom
The scene that begins the story
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. On the ground floor, a bar, a salon and a theater instead of a place a developer owns...
Bar and salon A singer rehearses
Maya, a Voice, a musical in French and English: the story of writer Maya Angelou with Ursuline Kairson
A characteristic program (end of March, 2023)
Because the City stepped in.
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