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A celebrated French resistance cabaret has fixed its last performance, bringing an extremity to the Parisian fixture that inspired a Hollywood film.
Chez Michou said connected societal media that Sunday's show would beryllium its past owed to fiscal reasons.
The trailblazing cabaret successful the capital's Montmartre territory brought resistance amusement to France successful the mid-1950s.
The venue's managers said that a liquidator would beryllium appointed aboriginal this month, with hopes that a purchaser tin beryllium recovered for the club.
Despite being successful a tiny venue, Chez Michou was decorated with gilt framed mirrors attracted visitors from crossed France and astir the world.
In its heyday, they included French President Jacques Chirac and Hollywood prima Liza Minnelli.
The servers who kept the champagne flowing were called Michettes, and doubled arsenic performers successful the lively club.
Chez Michou was founded by flamboyant cabaret creator Michel Catty - known simply arsenic Michou.
The larger-than-life quality was known for his all-blue outfits - including chunky bluish glasses.
He is credited with inspiring the 1983 Oscar-nominated French movie La Cage aux Folles - a drama astir a cheery mates operating a resistance nightclub successful a French edifice town.
An American mentation was made successful 1996 - The Birdcage - starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.
Michou ran the nine close up until his decease successful 2020, astatine the property of 88.
There was an outpouring of grief, with the Élysée Palace issuing a connection saying: “The entity supra Montmartre volition beryllium a small little bluish from present on.”
His niece, Catherine Catty-Jacquart, took implicit moving the club, and told AFP quality bureau that it had seen a deficiency of bookings contempt the Olympics, and blamed its fiscal woes connected protests, strikes, parking and the interaction of Covid.
"We're surviving from time to day," she said connected Saturday, earlier it was announced that the nine had closed its doors - astatine slightest for now.
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