Postcards from Paris...Place Pigalle/lower Montmarte

The world-famous "Moulin Rouge."

Place Pigalle and the lower Montmarte are the scene of much of Paris's naughtier night life. Le Moulin Rouge, "the Red Mill" which dates from 1889, is quite expensive and the shows there have an element of class lacking in many of the other clubs around Pigalle and the lower Montmartre. Despite the more upscale Moulin Rouge, the truth of the area is that this for years has been Paris's "red light" district where painter Toulouse-Lautrec contracted syphilis.

The entry to Le Moulin Rouge. Note the "can-can" dancers painted on the wall.

"The Sex-O-Drome"



"Folies Pigalle" Discotheque