However no extra: In a single day, the sails of the windmill collapsed in a mysterious incident, together with three letters from the cabaret’s identify — leaving late-night revelers and early-morning commuters shocked.
Nobody was injured, Eric Lejoindre, mayor of Paris’s 18th district, wrote on X. And the construction isn’t in peril of collapse, firefighters informed native media retailers. However with out its sails, is the Moulin Rouge — that means “Pink Windmill” in French — nonetheless the Moulin Rouge?
“It’s fairly disturbing to see it with out” its sails, resident Raphaël informed Le Parisien newspaper. “In spite of everything, it’s an emblem in Pigalle and even all through Paris. However the primary factor is that there have been no accidents.”
The collapse occurred Thursday shortly earlier than 2 a.m., Jean-Victor Clerico, the director of the Moulin Rouge, informed French tv station TF1. The Moulin Rouge’s final present begins round 11 p.m. and ends round 12:30 a.m., and the viewers had cleared out of the venue by the point the sails collapsed, Clerico mentioned.
It’s not clear what induced the collapse. Clerico mentioned the sails have been frequently checked and maintained by an exterior firm and by the cabaret’s personal technical groups. He informed journalists on Thursday it was not sabotage, however reasonably “a technical downside” that induced the sails to fall to the bottom, bringing three letters on the entrance of the constructing down with them, based on Le Monde.
Earlier, an unnamed Moulin Rouge official informed Agence France-Presse that technical specialists from the cabaret checked the windmill weekly and “didn’t word any issues” with it.
The Moulin Rouge didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from The Washington Submit on Thursday.
Clerico informed TF1 it was the primary time an accident like this had occurred because the Moulin Rouge opened in 1889. He mentioned the cabaret could be open as typical Thursday night, including, “the present continues, that’s an important factor.”
The Moulin Rouge was one in all a number of cabarets to spring up throughout Paris round what turned often known as the belle epoque — a time of peace and prosperity between the Franco-Prussian Battle and World Battle I. It was “a interval of transition between two centuries, throughout which social boundaries collapsed and the economic revolution gave hope of a greater life for all, in a wealthy cultural profusion of enjoyable and frivolity,” based on a historical past of the Moulin Rouge.
The music corridor opened on Oct. 6, and Parisians confirmed up en masse “to find this extravagant place,” based on the historical past. When the French cancan was invented, it turned a staple of the cabaret’s exhibits and an emblem of fixing social mores and the position of ladies in French society.
The Moulin Rouge has been a part of Parisian life since then, although now its exhibits primarily draw vacationers. A fireplace in 1915 ravaged it and compelled it to shut for 9 years for renovations.
It would rejoice its one hundred and thirty fifth anniversary in October.
