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"Les
Jambes Superbes"
Women in the Moulin Rouge & the Folies Bergère |
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Folies
Bergére
The
Folies Bergère
opened in 1869 and became an important music hall.
It showed operettas and pantomimes. Round 1890's
the repertory also included vaudeville sketches,
acrobats, ballets, and magicians. After the vogue
of nudity in Parisian music halls (1894), the
Folies
Bergère showed
sensational displays of women in scanty opulent
costumes depicted in several of these images.
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Moulin Rouge
The Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in October 1889
in Montmartre. A red windmill still dominates
the front of the building. The most famous visitor
was the painter Henri Toulouse Lautrec. It was
here the
Parisian
underworld met the upper class life of the priviledged.
Politicians, ambassadors and even the Prince of
Wales came to mix with the courtesans, can-can
women and performers. The Moulin Rouge became
the home of the
Parisian
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Moulin
Rouge:
Sur
la croix à remarquer les jambes supérbes
de la ballerine Mll. Denis |
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Le
Nouveau Moulin Rouge Cinéma
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Judging illustrations
of women in Culture Physique
magazines their world
is related with the world
of the cabaret and theatre,
as seen on the cover of
"La Culture Physique"
on the right. Phot.
Walery
Here we see
Mlle. Marcelle
De Beaulieu,
dans la Revue des Folies-Bergères.
Further the text says:
"Un beau type
de plastique Féminine"
which illustrate the Physical
Culture connection.
The same kind of images
seen on the well known
and collectable Vaudeville
postcards, depicting vaudeville
actrices, are often seen
on the cover and inside
these physical culture
magazines. For example
Otero, Cléo de Mérode,
Sarah
Bernhardt,
De Marsa, Trouhanova,
Régina Badet, Sandrini,
etc.
Obviously these illustrations
are done by the same photographers,
e.g.
Walery,
Reutlinger,
etc. The three postcards
above show typical cabaret
artists in their splendid
suit.
Physical Culture for men
mainly goes about strenght.
However in case of women
beauty
becomes much more important!
An article in "La
Culture Physique"
"La
Femme, La Beauté du Visage"
tells about the importance
of the beauty of a woman,'s
face. Four close-ups of
beautiful women Illustrate
the article on the right
with cover photograph
of De Marsa, Mlle.
X, Guerrero and Cléo de
Mérode. The latter two
portraits are illustrated
above. |
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Une
figurante & Bella Serrana |
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The
women in these cabaret's were
often dressed in
scanty
opulent costumes as seen in the
detail left. Eugen Sandow, the
famous
body builder,
frequented these cabaret's where
he met "La belle Otero".
Other famous performers were
Bella Serrana
seen in the left image
and Sarah Bernhardt,
Illegitimate child of a courtisan.
The Vaudeville cabaret's in Paris
programmed Light entertainment
on their stage, including magicians,
acrobats, comedians, singers,
strong men and dancers. Famous
dances were the French
Can Can
& the Cake Walk.
These vintage stereo images are
in vast contrast to the more common
& elaborate
Vaudeville postcards
of variete artists. Often, the
stereo photographs depict the
poverty behind the scenes, visible
in the old detoriorated furniture,
accessories, clothes & tissues.
Stereo
Stereo photography was still very
popular at that time. In one of
the images, a brewster type stereoscope
is seen on a table in a dressing
room next to the
scanty
dressed dancer.
Unfortunately, all these historical
important and intriguing images
are made by an anonymous photographer.
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Stereoscopes & stereo
photographs were widespread and
many of these images are made by
amateur photographers.
The
viewer
in this image looks more the
cheaper model of the Brewster
hand-held stereoscope. |
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..Actrice
in Folies Bergére
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Actrice
in Moulin Rouge
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Mll. Denis
Danseuse de Paris et Folies Bergère |
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Made
with a Vérascope Richard stereo camera
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Brèville
des Folies Bergère
(1909-1910) |
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Brèville
des Folies Bergère
(1909-1910) |
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Brèville
des Folies Bergère
(1909) |
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Actrice with suits and a Brewster type
Stereoscope
on the table left |
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Bella Serrana et une figurante |
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Clémence de Pibrac (Clémence Procureur) 1869
- 1938 |
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..Actrice
in Folies Bergére -
click photo
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Actrices
in Folies Bergére.-
click photo
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thomas wynants |