Author’s Note
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Author’s NoteThroughout the world the Moulin Rouge became the synonym for Paris and another word for pleasure.
It was the heart of the great erotic myth of a naughty, free, uninhibited city of frou-frou and champagne, of love and laughter and of poets and painters.
The golden age of the Moulin Rouge lasted for five years.
La Goulue soon gave herself the air of a Prima Donna. On one famous occasion she insolently addressed the Prince of Wales, by then a devotee of Paris, by calling out,
“Hey, Wales. It’s you who’s paying for the champagne.”
By the end of the century she was a circus performer in a lion’s cage and a few years later, gross and prematurely aged, she was penniless.
Degeneration by Max Nordau, was published in 1893 and was a sensational bestseller.
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