Moulin Rouge: La Goulue popular French club, Moulin Rouge. Their audience is reduced to silhouettes in order to focus attention on the performers and evoke the Japanese art then in vogue. The triple repetition of the club's name draws the focus down to the central figure of the poster, La Goulue herself. The stark white of her petticoats, depicted with just a few lines on the white paper, epitomizes Toulouse-Lautrec's boldly simplistic style, a sharp break from the text-heavy posters of the day. The Moulin Rouge had opened two years earlier, in 1889, and instantly established itself as a Montmartre landmark. It was renowned
Claudine at School sold in a year. "Claudine" will be produced in Paris at the Moulin Rouge." The Actors' Charitable Trust in London has an A4 coloured poster (by Clérice Frères) for the Moulin Rouge production of "Claudine" which does mention Colette: "Opérette en 3 Actes de Willy, d'après les Romans de Willy & Colette Willy." Claudine at School Claudine at School () is a 1900 novel by the French writer Colette. The narrative recounts the final year of secondary school of 15-year-old Claudine, her brazen confrontations with her headmistress, Mlle Sergent, and her fellow students. It was Colette's first published novel, originally