Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early Twentieth-Century Paris

Mel Gordon

From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven and Nothingness. Each had specialized cuisines and morbid visual displays with flashes of nudity and shocking optical illusi...