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'In 1936, Derval brought'

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That paragraph needs work. Otherwise nice job!

Who else notable performed at the Folies Bergères? Did Edith Piaf? Wondering, -- Infrogmation 22:20, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

  • Can't say she never appeared there, but she was certainly more associated with the Comédie Française. We probably should put people more identified with the Folies here. -- Nunh-huh 22:33, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Those GPS coordinates

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Does anyone know why "48°52′27″N, 2°20′42″E" is at the top of the page? --tess 19:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is the coordinates to Folies Bergère. I've made it look more like coordinates I've seen on other pages. --tess 20:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On the name of "folies"

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The idea that folie is from the Latin word for leaf is a historical fantasy. The relevant French word in that case is feuille. Folie has an entirely different etymology. See here

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feuille

here

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/folie

here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.21.106.137 (talk) 11:38, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=folly

and here

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fool.

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.21.106.137 (talk) 11:32, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Location

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Why are you showing the location on a map of France, instead of a map of Paris? Valetude (talk) 23:37, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

On This Day

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According to the On This Day for 1st May, the place actually opened on the 1st May, 1869.

Is it possibly for someone to double check this, and correct the relevant articles?

Thanks.

Cuddy2977 (talk) 16:47, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Histoire

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In 1865, a popular store specializing in bedding: "Les colonnes d’Hercule", nicknamed "Au sommier élastique" (!) The hall opened on May 2, 1869 under the name of "Folies Trévise" quickly abandoned (opposition of the 3rd Duke of Mortier Trévise), because then the artists' entrance was at 35, rue de Trévise (site of the former Hôtel de Talleyrand). After the Commune (with political meetings: speech by Michelet!), Sari bought the hall and first added a promenade then had a huge winter garden (the future Grand Foyer) built on the vacant lot that was before the entrance to the hall. Renamed "Folies Bergère" on September 13, 1872, Manet painted one of the most famous impressionist paintings there in 1881: "Le Bar des Folies Bergère" (not in keeping with the reality of the place!). Origin of the name: in the 18th century, the follies were entertainment houses, then in the 19th century also places of entertainment. Instead of being called "Folies Richer or Geoffroy Marie" (name of streets but also of people), it took the name of 'FOLIES BERGÈRE' as a precaution, which is written without the 'S' in Bergère since it refers to the follies of rue Bergère and not the follies of several shepherdesses! The first large music hall opened in Paris, specializing in grand variety shows, on the model of the Alhambra in London, it gave revues, operettas, comic operas, popular songs, acrobatic shows. During the show, a hybrid formula, one could come and go freely, sit at tables, drink and smoke... or frolic with the "cocottes", as Maupassant would describe in "Bel Ami" or Zola in "Nana". "The garden, with its upper galleries, its arcades cut out of coarse wooden guipure, with its full diamonds, its hollowed-out clovers, dyed with red ochre and gold, its ceiling of fabric with pompoms and tassels, striped with garnet and brown, its fake Louvois fountains, with three women leaning between two enormous saucers of imitation bronze planted in the middle of green tufts, its paths lined with tables, rush sofas, chairs and counters run by heavily made-up women, resembles at once the broth of the rue Montesquieu and an Algerian or Turkish bazaar.... This theater, with its performance hall whose faded red and dirty gold clash with the brand new luxury of the fake garden, is the only place in Paris that stinks so deliciously of the make-up of paid tenderness and the baying of corruption that tires." (Joris-Karl Huysmans - Parisian Sketches - 1880) From the end of the 19th century, shows revolved around women with pantomime ballets and the arrival of "girls". From 1918, under the direction of Paul Derval, and for nearly 50 years, Les "Folies Bergère" would experience international fame with its famous revues all called "folies", with titles in 13 letters: "J'aime à la Folie", "Féeries en Folie", "La Grande Folie"... "Ah, these naked women, he would say, if I thought of suppressing them, I would only have to close the shop...". Colette would even participate in one of these revues! Josephine Baker would give her last performance there in 1949 at the age of 43! He enlarged the hall in 1926 with a new balcony, which increased to 1,679 seats and the large foyer decorated with candelabras. Its beautiful 1929 façade, the work of the sculptor Pico, typically Art Deco, is listed in the Inventory of Historical Monuments (restored with gold leaf in 2011). In 1974, a former "dressed model" of the "Folies Bergère", Hélène Martini, already the owner of many halls in Paris, took over the management and after renovation, perpetuated the tradition to illustrate the motto inscribed on the façade of the "Most Famous Music Hall in the World", until 1993 with the "Folies", then with highly successful shows such as "Fame", "the Twist years" or even "Cabaret" and "Zorro", in recent years. Jean Marais will perform there (with Bernadette Lafont) his last show in "l'Arlésienne" in 1997. In 2011, after a few years of intermittent programming and during which the establishment unfortunately deteriorated, the Lagardère group bought the hall and undertook, under the direction of Jean-Marc Dumontet, major renovation work with the restoration of the listed facade, roof and general compliance with standards. He also bought at auction a certain number of costumes from the revues and shows, which he exhibited in the Foyer. E. Fouquet  : 9e Histoire  : 07/03/2014 • 19:08 69.181.17.113 (talk) 07:37, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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