Moulin Rouge and it's glowing but subtly flagrant existence. For most, it constitutes hardly anything beyond a photograph background - unless of course you are willing to pay the big bucks and feel the real revue fever inside.
If you start out from Montmarte, all you need to do is go downhill. You'll know when you reach Moulin Rouge.
Long before there was Moulin Rouge, however, there was Moulin de la Galette. In the 19th century, the Debray family business, having only started out with baking a simple brown bread called "galette", transformed into something so influential in its local that Le Moulin de la Galette eventually came to represent "Parisians seeking entertainment, a glass of wine and bread made from flour ground by the windmill". Artists, such as Renoir, Van Gogh, and Pissarro have immortalized Le Moulin de la Galette; likely the most notable was Renoir's festive painting, Bal du moulin de la Galette.
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