Stavros
10-06-2023, 04:33 PM
I used to walk past Madame Arthur on the Rue des Martyrs (Chez Michou is further up on the right) in those 1970s days when there was a street scene higher up the Rue, and around onto the Rue Houdon. While that scene has gone -the low rent rooms have long since been renovated for young professionals in need of somewhere affordable to live in overcrowded Paris- and Madame Arthur closed for a while, it has since been revived.
Links:
As it is today
Madame Arthur: Paris’s oldest gender-twisting cabaret – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/oct/06/madame-arthur-paris-oldest-gender-twisting-cabaret-in-pictures)
As it once was (not my title!)
The boys of Paris: The trailblazing transgender performers of Madame Arthur’s | Dangerous Minds (https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_boys_of_paris_the_trailblazing_transgender_per formers_of_madame_arthurs)
Chez Michou
Cabaret Michou® Officiel - Show by transformist artists in Paris Montmartre (https://www.michou.com/)
Other Drag/Trans venues
Welcome2France - The Best Drag Bars in Paris (https://www.welcome2france.com/blog-article-2921-the-best-drag-bars-in-paris.html)
Links:
As it is today
Madame Arthur: Paris’s oldest gender-twisting cabaret – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/oct/06/madame-arthur-paris-oldest-gender-twisting-cabaret-in-pictures)
As it once was (not my title!)
The boys of Paris: The trailblazing transgender performers of Madame Arthur’s | Dangerous Minds (https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_boys_of_paris_the_trailblazing_transgender_per formers_of_madame_arthurs)
Chez Michou
Cabaret Michou® Officiel - Show by transformist artists in Paris Montmartre (https://www.michou.com/)
Other Drag/Trans venues
Welcome2France - The Best Drag Bars in Paris (https://www.welcome2france.com/blog-article-2921-the-best-drag-bars-in-paris.html)