Lapin Agile

Le Lapin Agile is a small traditional Parisian cabaret in the Rue des Saules (No. 22) on the Montmartre hill in the 18th arrondissement ), which since the 19th century in a family context cabaret artists recite their own poems and songs.

At the site of the later cabarets and popular meeting place of artists from Montmartre already existed in 1860, at the time of incorporation of Montmartre, a tavern. This changed its name several times. First, as " Au rendez- vous des voleurs " ( " To the meeting place of Thieves " ) are known, it was called then - based on murals or paintings that depicted the gruesome deeds of various serial killers, including those of Troppmann - "Cabaret of the Assassins " ( " Cabaret the murderer " ) and later " Ma Campagne ". Finally, the cabaret took for a sign (1880 ) by André Gill, a copy of which is still attached to the façade and contains a pun on its current name. It shows a rabbit (French lapin ), the fast ( French agile) jumps out of the pan, and is also an allusion to the fact that this " rabbit Gill " (French lapin à Gill) was painted. Picasso portrayed in 1904 in the painting " La Femme à la Corneille " ( The woman with the crow) Margot, the daughter of the former cabaret owner.

In the " Lapin Agile " upside among others, the French writer and poet Courteline (1828-1929), Paul Arene (1843-1896), Verlaine (1844-1896), Max Jacob (1876-1944), Apollinaire (18801-918), Francis Carco (1886-1958), the journalist and humorist Alphonse Allais (1854-1905), the French painter, draftsman and illustrator Renoir (1841-1919), Pierre Ernest Prins (1848-1913), Jean -Louis Forain (1852 - 1931), Jules Depaquit ( 1869-1924 ), Utrillo ( 1883-1955 ), the Russian cartoonist Caran d' Ache ( 1854-1909 ), actor and theater director Charles Dullin later ( 1885-1949 ).