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The Moulin Rouge, one of the symbols of Paris around the world, was immortalized by the painter Toulouse Lautrec in the nineteenth century. The cabaret welcomes 600,000 visitors a year. RFI / Edmond Sadaka

The world's most famous cabaret blows its 130 candles with a sound and light show, a fireworks show and an outdoor French Cancan this October 6 at 8 pm, 130 years to the day and hour for hour after its opening in 1889 .

Large gaps and acute cries of dancers who waved their petticoats tricolor underside ... To celebrate the 130 years of the French dean of cabarets feather and sequins, the Moulin Rouge has released the great game The 60 dancers are giving in show in the street in front of a crowd of Parisians and tourists. If everyone evokes " the party, " " a certain idea of ​​French culture ," " the French Cancan, " they are also eager to take a look behind the scenes of this " palace of dance and women ."

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Inaugurated in a period of recklessness, progress and prosperity, the bet was to make a cabaret " more luxurious, tall and elegant " than the others. Bet held until today when the Moulin Rouge welcomes 600 000 spectators a year with two performances every night - every day of the year, 450 employees, 25 cooks, 120 servers and has 6 dwarf horses, 5 pythons and about 1,000 costumes. While the inventor of the French Cancan, a certain Charles Morton, he was British.

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