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Pigalle (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is an area in Paris, France, around the Place Pigalle, on the border between the 9th [1] and the 18th arrondissements. It is named after the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785).
Place Pigalle (c. 1910), painted by Eugène Galien-Laloue. In 1826, Mr. Brack [who?] was authorized to form on his land and on land that the city conceded to him by way of exchange, in accordance with the deliberation of the Conseil municipal of 1 June 1826, a street 12 meters wide, from the Rue Laval (now the Rue Victor-Massé) to the Porte Montmartre (Montmartre Gate), and a semi-circular ...
This line was taken over by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris and was renamed line 12 on 27 March 1931. The Place Pigalle was named after the Barrière Pigalle, a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General; the gate was built between 1784 and 1788 and demolished in the 19th century.
Place Pigalle, public square in the Quartier Pigalle at the foot of the Montmartre hill; Pigalle (Paris Métro), a station on lines 2 and 12 of the Paris Métro; Théâtre Pigalle, was a theatre in Paris, located in the rue Pigalle in the ninth arrondissement; Elsewhere. Pigalle Club, a supper club and live music venue in Piccadilly, London
Paris Pigalle (French: L'amour est une fête) is a 2018 French comedy film directed by Cédric Anger. The film stars Guillaume Canet and Gilles Lellouche. [3] [4] [5]
Chez Moune is a Parisian nightclub that originally opened as Le Fetiche in 1936 in the Place Pigalle. It has been described as the first lesbian club with dancing and cabaret in Europe. Since the late 1980s, it has been a nightclub for mixed clientele. Chez Moune, 54 rue Jean-Baptiste-Pigalle, Paris 9e
The boulevards below Montmartre, also called le bas de Montmartre ("lower Montmartre") or more informally Pigalle, were once popular with mid-19th-century Parisians for their cabarets, as at the time they were outside the city of Paris (up until the annexations of 1859) and thus exempt from the octroi (taxes levied on goods for consumption ...
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist piɡal]; 26 January 1714 – 20 August 1785 [1]) was a French sculptor whose work was influenced by both baroque and neo-classical trends. Life