The Moulin Rouge (red windmill) is world known due to it’s appearance in films, books, paintings, (The Moulin Rouge was the subject of paintings by post impressionist painter Toulouse Lautrec.) Whether you’ve heard of it through the song “Lady Marmalade” or maybe seen the film starring Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge is known by many people, so why not visit it for yourself? The Moulin Rouge is located in the 18th arrondissements where there are lots of Paris apartments and hotel Paris nearby.

Nowadays the Moulin Rouge stages spectacular can can performances and cabaret but in the past, it was known as the hot spot for high class prostitution, the strip tease is even said to have been invented there due to a courtesan who slowly removed her clothes in a vain search for a flea crawling on her body. At this time Parisian shows such as the Moulin Rouge and Folies Berg

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