Harrington Park Press

"Rayon du Moulin-Rouge" / "Moulin Rouge Department" by Tony Minartz for “L’Article de Paris”/ “Parisian Specialty” in L’Assiette au Beurre, Feb. 8, 1902.

"The vast premises of the Moulin Rouge was famous for its can-can dancers, who kept the audience enthralled. It also had a dance floor where female couples often waltzed in one another’s arms. Tony Minartz depicted the tight embrace of women spinning round in an issue of satirical magazine L’Assiette au Beurre. If the drawing was not clear enough, the caption accompanying it spelled it out:

Article for intimate parties . . .

And to think that the guys,

Poor fellows, don’t realize

That we get by fine without them!"