Excerpt from the Lapin Agile Log Book. Painting by Maurice de Vlaminck

AU LAPIN AGILE

"At the corner of the rue Saint Vincent and the rue des Saules, on the northern slope of the Butte Montmartre, stands the Lapin Agile, like a beacon light, where it has been for almost one and a half centuries. A strange little enchanted house where each of us can hear songs which move us."
(dixit Pierre Mac orlan)

In 1875 the painter-caricaturist André Gill painted a sign of a rabbit jumping out of a saucepan : "Le Lapin à Gill" changed quite naturally into Lapin Agile. NEXT