French PM Gabriel Attal gets the scoop on Lady Gaga’s engagement
The pop star introduced Attal to her “fiancé” during the Olympics.
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‘It’s something incredible’: electric mood in France matches that of 1998
Pessimism over domestic politics and the Games themselves has been replaced by euphoria, helped by impressive early medal successWhen the French rugby sevens won gold with their national hero Antoine Dupont blasting through Fiji’s defence, and tens of …
Flotilla on Seine, rain and Céline Dion mark start of Paris Olympics
French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Olympic Games open on Friday (26 July) after a soaking wet ceremony in which athletes were cheered by the crowd along the Seine, dancers took to the roofs of Paris and Lady Gaga sang a French cabaret song.
Olympic torch relay: Paris route includes stop at Moulin Rouge cabaret
The torch relay ahead of the Paris Olympics reached the French capital for the first time on Sunday, with organisers hoping to build enthusiasm for the Games among the city’s sceptical residents. Moulin Rouge Dancer Allie Goodbun, who performed along …
The Fifth Seal review – a spiky political cabaret of cruelty and fear
Zoltán Fábri’s 1976 film follows military veteran Karoly in wartime Hungary as he asks fellow drinkers in a bar what they would choose: be the slave master or the slaveThe seventh seal that gave Ingmar Bergman’s film its title is the one whose opening …
Moulin Rouge in Paris celebrates installation of new windmill sails
Cabaret club’s iconic sails collapsed in April and new set is up in time for Olympic torch relay to pass by on 15 JulyParis’s Moulin Rouge cabaret club, whose landmark windmill sails fell down in April has inaugurated a new set, a week before the Olymp…
Anouk Aimée was an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability
The star of La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman, who has died aged 92, had a unique screen presence that was at once alluring and forbiddingThe superbly aquiline beauty and patrician style of Anouk Aimée made her a 60s movie icon in France, Italy and e…
Windmill sails fall off Moulin Rouge
The cause of the sails’ collapse from the roof of the world famous cabaret club is not yet clear.
Paris’s Moulin Rouge loses windmill sails overnight
The cause of the sails’ collapse from the roof of the world famous cabaret club is not yet clear.
Moulin Rouge windmill blades collapse in Paris
Blades of famous cabaret venue, home of the French can-can, fall from roof overnightThe home of the high-spirited French can-can has been laid temporarily low after the sails of the red-painted windmill on top of the Moulin Rouge, the most celebrated c…
When a Eurovision song started a coup | Letters
Chris Keil on the significance of the Portuguese entry for the 1974 competition. Plus John Lovelock on Abba’s appealAlexis Petridis’s article (Abba, cabaret and smug marionettes: the 1974 Eurovision song contest reviewed!, 5 April) didn’t mention the o…
‘Satirical resistance’: the magazine-maker who risked his life poking fun at the Nazis
As Hitler’s forces razed Europe, Curt Bloch was writing subversive anti-Nazi zine The Underwater Cabaret. Now, all 95 issues form a new exhibition of satire and seditionAs the daughter of antiques dealers, Simone Bloch grew up in a New York house fille…
Madame Arthur: Paris’s oldest gender-twisting cabaret – in pictures
The AFP photographer Joel Saget went on stage and backstage at the Parisian cross-dressing cabaret Madame Arthur. Open since 1946, Madame Arthur is the oldest transformist cabaret in Paris. Threatened with extinction, it has undergone a renaissance sin…