1869 this mythical place takes the name of "Cabaret des assassins", before being called "Au Rendez-vous des voleurs".

Stories of murders and intrigues, que neni!

Just engravings of famous assassins on the wall that gave rise to these names.

1880 the caricaturist André Gill is entrusted with the painting of the sign, which will be the one we all know.

The play on words was quite found from Gill's Rabbit to the Lapin Agile

What agility of mind!

Anecdote in 1910: Roland Dorgelès journalist made paint the donkey of this place Lolo and presents the work as being of a certain JR Bonareli.

An exercise that gave "a lesson to all the fools and incompetents who clutter up the salons", to use Dorgelès' words.

Beautiful lesson!

If you want to cross the ghosts of all the artists who haunted this place, the Lapin Agile still exists and proposes sessions of poems and songs.

Elodie Couturier

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