A Montmartre Legend

Fourteen mills located on the Butte Montmartre which served for millinding the wheat and flowers, for pressing grape harvests, or crushing materials, alone two remain even today: Blute-fin and Radet, dating from 1717, fair above the restaurant. These two mills formed the famous whole "Moulin de la Galette".

The galette was this bun of rye which the millers Debray, owners of the place, sold accompanied with a glass of milk. After the defence of the Butte against the Prussian in 1814 the Debray family finds itself ruined. They transformed the milk into wine of muscatel and the Moulin de la Galette in dance in 1860s. Ambience is relaxed there and the more popular customers than in other establishments.

Renoir painted the famous picture of the " Bal du Moulin de la Galette" (nowadays in Musé d’Orsay) there, Horsebox Gogh " The gardens of Butte-Montmartre " but also Utrillo, Dufy, Bernard, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso immortalizes this famous Mill, in whom All Paris came to slum it and to admire the revue of Goulue, Nini Patte in air and Nest of Egoût …

Having acted as music hall, the place was a studio of television with it ORTF (French Brocasting Service), then finally a restaurant seen frequently in the eighties by a famous singer, originaly from Egypt, Dalida.