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The
Folies Bergère is a
Parisian
music hall which was at the height of its fame and popularity from the
1890s through the
1920s.
As of 2007 the institution is still in business.
History
Located at 32 rue Richer, in the
9th Arondissement, it was built as an
opera house by the architect
Plumeret. It was patterned after the Alhambra music hall in London.
It opened on
2 May 1869 as the
Folies Trévise, with fare including operettas, comic opera, popular song, and gymnastics.
The name was the
French word "folies", derived from the Latin word for "leaves" (
foliae), connoting the idea of an outdoors entertainment venue, combined with the name of one of the adjacent streets, the "
rue Trevise". (It was on the intersection of the
rue Richer and the
rue Trévise.) Unfortunately, the Duc de Trévise, a prominent nobleman, didn't want people to think that he was associated with a bawdy dance hall. As a result, it was renamed the Folies Bergère on
13 September 1872, after another nearby street, the
rue Bergère (the feminine form of "shepherd").
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Édouard Manet's
1882 well-known painting
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère depicts a bar-girl, one of the
demimondaine, standing before a mirror.
The
Folies Bergère catered to popular taste. Shows featured elaborate costumes; the women's were frequently revealing, and shows often contained a good deal of
nudity. Shows also played up the "exoticness" of persons and things from other cultures, obliging the Parisian fascination with "
négritude" of the 1920s.
Notable performers
In the early 1890s, the
American dancer
Loie Fuller starred at the Folies Bergère. Nearly thirty years later,
Joséphine Baker, an
African-American expatriate singer, dancer, and entertainer, became an "overnight sensation" at the Folies Bergère in
1926 with her suggestive "banana dance", in which she wore a skirt made of
bananas (and little else).
Other notable Folies Bergère performers have included singers
Maurice Chevalier and
Louisa Baileche, and comedian
Cantinflas.
Similar venues
The Folies Bergère inspired the
Ziegfeld Follies in the
United States and other similar shows, including a long-standing revue at the
Tropicana Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
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