The famous Red Mill, , rested by Joseph Oller and his associates, Zidler and Renard in 1889, replaced the ball of the "White Queen". The former butcher Zidler had the luminous idea to produce in his ball some young ladies of district who devoted themselves into private to their favorite sport, a quadrille which will become universally known under the name of "French Cancan".
	The "Moulin Rouge" about 1889. The orchestra is dissimulated in the elephant. The Mabille son, who directs it, is upright in front of the piano, with the foot of the scene.
He had joined together on its plate decorated by Willette a girl name "Grille d’Egout", because of the exceptional spacing of its teeth. Nini-Patte-en-l’air, la Môme Fromage (the cheese kid), la Sauterelle (the Grasshopper) , la Cascadeuse (The stunt girl) , la Guigue, Etoile Filante (Shooting star), Arc-en-Ciel (rainbow), Rayon d’Or , Clair de Lune (Moonlight), Violette, Pâquerette, Camélia (dite "trompe la mort"), Cri-Cri (who died on stage), Goulue"flabby ". This universally known monument was superbly illustrated by one of its most assiduous customers, the painter Toulouse-Lautrec
With time, the Moulin Rouge gained in réputation. Aristocrats and middle-class man where there every evening. With success, the decoration again changed. An immense hall was built to accomodate the customers, in whi ch a red velvet tended staircase.
But between the two wars, the "Moulin Rouge" changed vocation with Pathé which transformed it into movie theater. Success remained the same one. In the Thirties, Pathé was obliged to sell. It was necessary to wait the Sixties so that the Moulin Rougereturns to its vocation of origin in an entirely renewed decoration.