In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

Across the Universe, Moulin Rouge !, and Mamma Mia!

Baz Luhrmann stated that his successful musical film Moulin Rouge!

Other examples of storytelling voice-overs can be heard in Annie Hall, Gattaca, Fight Club, Megamind, Ratatouille, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Tangled, The Magic School Bus, The Emperor's New Groove, Kronk's New Groove, Blade Runner, The Rugrats Movie, The Shawshank Redemption, Big Fish, How to Train Your Dragon, Moulin Rouge !, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Young Winston, Rugrats, Raising Arizona, Goodfellas, Clash of the Titans, and Star Quest: The Odyssey.

* Satine played by Nicole Kidman, an actress / courtesan who falls in love with a penniless poet / writer played by Ewan McGregor, in the movie Moulin Rouge !.

Moulin Rouge is best known as the spiritual birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance.

Today, Moulin Rouge is a tourist attraction, offering musical dance entertainment for visitors from around the world.

The Moulin Rouge in 1900

The Belle Époque era, a period of peace and optimism marked by industrial progress and a particularly rich cultural exuberance is about at the opening of the Moulin Rouge.

On 6 October 1889, the Moulin Rouge opened in the Jardin de Paris, at the foot of the Montmartre hill.

His posters and paintings secured rapid and international fame for the Moulin Rouge.

* The early years of the Moulin Rouge are marked by extravagant shows, inspired by the circus, and attractions that are still famous such as Pétomane.

* 1886 – 1910: Footit and Chocolat, a comic act of a white, authoritarian clown and a black, long-suffering Auguste, are very popular and often appear on the Moulin Rouge poster.

* 1891: “ La Goulue ”: Toulouse-Lautrec's first poster for the Moulin Rouge.

* 12 November 1897: The Moulin Rouge closed its doors for the first time for the funeral of its Manager and co-founder Charles Zidler.

* January 1903: the Moulin Rouge reopened after renovation and improvement work carried out by Niermans, the most “ Parisian ” architect of the Belle Époque ( amongst other works he designed the brasserie Mollard, the Paris Casino, the Folies Bergère in Paris, the Palace Hôtel in Ostend in Belgium, the rebuilding of the Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz and the creation of the Hôtel Négresco on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice ).

* Until the First World War, the Moulin Rouge became a real temple of operetta.

* 29 July 1907: first appearance of Mistinguett on stage at the Moulin Rouge in the “ Revue de la Femme ”.

* 9 April 1910: A former lady-in-waiting to the Empress Eugénie attended a showing of the Revue Amoureuse at the Moulin Rouge.

* 27 February 1915: the Moulin Rouge was destroyed by fire.

* 1921: The rebuilt Moulin Rouge finally reopened.

* After the war, Francis Salabert took charge of the Moulin Rouge.

The Moulin Rouge took off again, thanks to stars such as Mistinguett, Jeanne Aubert or Maurice Chevalier, and to the first showing in Paris of American revues with the Hoffmann Girls.

His drawings and models will always be associated with the image of the Moulin Rouge.

The most famous figure of the French resistance was Jean Moulin, sent in France by de Gaulle in order to link all resistance movements ; he was captured and tortured by Klaus Barbie ( the " butcher of Lyon ").

** Jean Moulin, French resistance fighter ( b. 1899 )

* The evening dances, the acts and of course the famous French cancan are all back at the Moulin Rouge.

* 19 May 1953: the 25th “ Bal des Petits Lits Blancs “, organised by the novelist Guy des Cars, takes place at the Moulin Rouge in the presence of the French President, Monsieur Vincent Auriol, and it includes, for the first time on a European stage, Bing Crosby.

* The film French Cancan ( 1955 ), directed by Jean Renoir, is a fictionalised history of the Moulin Rouge.

* Moulin Rouge official website ( English, French )

Jean Moulin ( 20 June 1899 – 8 July 1943 ) was a high-profile member of the French Resistance during World War II.

Moulin was born in Béziers, France, and enlisted in the French Army in 1918.

Today, Jean Moulin is used in French education to illustrate civic virtues, moral rectitude and patriotism.

Jean Moulin is the third most popular name for a French Ecole primaire, Collège, and Lycée.

Jean Moulin became the most famous and honoured French Resistance fighter.

In 1993, a commemorative French two franc coin was issued showing a partial image of Moulin against the Croix de Lorraine.

Jean Moulin, 1899-1943: the French Resistance and the Republic.

* Jean Moulin and the French Resistance ( English )

Among the well-known works that he painted for the Moulin Rouge and other Parisian nightclubs are depictions of the singer Yvette Guilbert ; the dancer Louise Weber, known as the outrageous La Goulue (" The Glutton "), who created the " French Can-Can "; and the much more subtle dancer Jane Avril.

Around 1294, a French version of the Scriptures was prepared by the Roman Catholic priest, Guyard de Moulin.

Bénouville and Marie-Madeleine Fourcade became députés in the French parliament after the war ; François Mitterrand moved towards the left and joined the Résistance, Henri Frenay evolved towards European socialism, and Daniel Cordier, whose family had supported Maurras for three generations, abandoned his views in favor of the ideology of the republican, Jean Moulin.

* Geocities. com – Jean Moulin and the French Resistance

He changed the name of his movement to " Fighting French Forces " ( Forces Françaises Combattantes ) and sent Jean Moulin back to France to unite the eight major French Resistance groups into one organisation.

5. 1 surround sound originated in 1987 at the famous French Cabaret Moulin Rouge.

With time, Brossolette was relegated to a second place and became the hero of his party SFIO while Moulin came to symbolize the myth of the French Resistance unity while the country struggled with the Algerian war and as De Gaulle tried to avoid civil war calling for union while noticing the growing popular clout of the Resistance legend on the postwar imagination.

* Jean Moulin ( 1899 – 1943 ), a hero of the French Resistance in World War II

The female dancers of the Second Empire and the fin de siècle developed the various cancan moves that were later incorporated by the choreographer Pierre Sandrini in the spectacular " French Cancan ", which he devised at the Moulin Rouge in the 1920s and presented at his own Bal Tabarin from 1928.