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At the beginning of the twentieth century, Aristide Bruant bought The Lapin Agile to save it from demolition. He sold it again, in 1922 under the most favourable terms to Paulo, the son of Frédé. Under Paulo's management and later with his wife, the singer Yvonne Darle, the Lapin Agile continued to flourish . The show developed and singers, poets, musicians were able to make their first appearances there. Many among them became stars in France - Rina Ketty, Pierre Brasseur, Clément Duhour, guitarists Alexandre Lagoya and Ida Presti, Georges Brassens, Annie Girardot, Georges Zamfir, Frédéric Lodéon, Claude Nougaro etc... Many American and English people have also become fond of the atmosphere of the Lapin Agile. Charlie Chaplin spent several nights here, one evening playing his violin. Ernest Hemingway, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Mitchum, Dana Winters, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Lauren Bacall, and Henry Miller have all passed some time with us. Leontyne Price sang "Summertime" several times at the cabaret during the debut of Porgy and Bess in Paris. The great pianist Sviatoslav Richter was a regular at the Lapin Agile. Recently, Steve Martin wrote the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile." A big hit in the USA, it has been translated into several languages and is touring worldwide.
Today, as always, we drink the traditional cherries in brandy under shaded lamps around which the songs flow. We are not different from those who used to come and think about their misfortunes or to sing around the hearth of Frédé.

An honor for us to welcome Eleanor Roosevelt