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| Couldn't resist this photo |
With Olly nursing the aftereffects of her champagne cocktail the night before, we headed up the hill to check out Le Chat Noir exhibition and catch up with one of the girl's from last night. It was a really quaint little museum and it was lovely to be out and about on a nice Sunday afternoon - still not hot but much warmer than the previous week. The black cat hanging out in the museum garden was almost too good to be true.
Background - Le Chat Noir
Le Chat Noir is thought to be the first modern cabaret: a nightclub where the patrons sat at tables and drank alcoholic beverages while being entertained by a variety show on stage, introduced by a master of ceremonies who interacted with people he knew at the tables. Its imitators have included cabarets from St. Petersburg(Stray Dog Café) to Barcelona (Els Quatre Gats).
Perhaps best known now by its iconic Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen poster art, in its heyday it was a bustling nightclub that was part artist salon, part rowdy music hall. The cabaret published its own humorous journal Le Chat Noir, which survived until 1895.
After the museum, we had a really lovely little lunch and then went shopping - a very dangerous
pastime.
pastime.
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| The vines at the bottom of the museum |