“Black Cat” ( French: Le Chat Noir ), “Sha Noir” - the now defunct famous Parisian cabaret in Montmartre . It was opened on November 18, 1881. After the death of the founder (1897), it lasted a couple more years, then it was sold and changed its name [1] .
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History
It was opened by artist Rodolphe Salis on November 18, 1881 and closed in 1897 to the great disappointment of Pablo Picasso and other guests who arrived in Paris at the 1900 World's Fair . In other countries, a cabaret was opened, imitating the “Black Cat”, for example, “ Stray Dog ” in St. Petersburg or “ Four Cats ” in Barcelona . There is also a Black Cat cafe in Corfu ( Greece ) and the unremarkable Au Cat Noir restaurant in the center of Brussels .
Nowadays, “Black Cat” is better known thanks to the poster of Theophilus-Alexander Steinlen . At that time “Black Cat” was a noisy night club - part of the cabaret was an art salon, in another part there was a variety show with a piano forbidden then.
At the opening of the cabaret, it occupied only two small rooms, but already after three and a half years, due to the growing popularity of the establishment, the cabaret had to be moved to a more spacious room.
Salis most often played the role of entertainer . According to Salis, “Black Cat is the most unusual cabaret in the world. Here you can pat on the shoulder of the most famous people of Paris and meet foreigners from all over the world. ”
Visitors
In the "Black Cat" gathered all the bohemia of those times. Regular visitors were Maupassant , Caran d'Ache , Paul Verlaine , Claude Debussy , Eric Satie , Jules Laforgue , Alfons Alle , Charles Cro , Leon Blois , Jean Moreas , Maurice Rollina , Aristide Bruant , Albert Samen , Jean Lorren , Paul Signac , Jeanne Avril , Yvette Gilber , August Strindberg and others.
Magazine
To maintain the prestige of the cabaret, Salis published the two-week Black Cat magazine in 1882–1897. The first 688 issues appeared between January 14, 1882 and March 1895. After that, 122 more issues appeared, the last of which appeared on September 30, 1897. The magazine was the embodiment of the spirit of the "end of the century." Its creation was attended by poets and chansonnier, who composed for the cabaret itself, as well as those who created the scenery for the cabaret. It was in this journal that the first articles of Jean Lorrain, one of the scandalous writers of the Belle Époque, appeared . It also printed Paul Verlaine and Jean Rishpen .
Notes
- ↑ Monsieur Fursi was bought and became known as the “Fursi Institution” (“La Boîte à Fursy”).
Literature
- Les Poètes du Chat noir, anthologie poétique. Paris: Gallimard, 1996
- Oberthur M. Le cabaret du Chat Noir à Montmartre (1881-1897). Genève: Editions Slatkine, 2007