Madame Arthur in Paris- Today and Yesterday + Others

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

As it once was (not my title!)
The boys of Paris: The trailblazing transgender performers of Madame Arthur’s | Dangerous Minds

Chez Michou
Cabaret Michou® Officiel - Show by transformist artists in Paris Montmartre

Other Drag/Trans venues
Welcome2France - The Best Drag Bars in Paris