Artists without works: Les Quat’z’arts Founded in 1893 by Frangois Trombert and located at 62, boulevard de Clichy, the Quat'Zarts cabaret, one of the last Montmartre cabarets artistiques, inherited the aesthetics of the Chat Noir, with which it coexisted for a few years. Like Salis, Trombert associated journalism and performance, and welcomed many artists who began their careers at the Chat Noir. However, Les Quat’ztrts (The Four Arts), the official magazine of the cabaret, was only published four years later, on 6 November 1897 (Fig. 1.6). Goudeau was again at the helm. ‘The eight-page black and white illustrated weekly had a smaller format (32 x 24-8 cm), cost 1 centimes, and was sold on Sacurdays at the cabaret. On 26 February 1898, the number of pages was reduced to four and the price to 10 centimes, After just one season, on 29 May 1898, the editorial ream took a holiday and inexplicably suspended all publishing, activi- ties for two years. Thirteen issues were printed sporadically from 1900 to 1908, the date of Trombert’s death. Les Quat'zarts was a collection of anecdotes, chronicles, jokes, parodies, and advertisements, which promoted Montmartre and its artists, The magazine included satirical comments on political events, namely Goudeau’s questionable critique of Zola’ involvement in the Dreyfus affair, as well as an autobiographical feuilleton by Charles de Sivry, Souvenirs sans regrets (Memories without Regrets), which gives interesting details about fin de siecle artistic gatherings, such as Nina de Villard’s salon. Willette's masthead illustration, however, denoted the artists’ preference for amusing and ephemeral collective activities, which did not necessarily leave immor- tal traces, but which, in contrast, gu on the gloomy and immobile monuments of France, four muses representing anteed artistic freedom. Turning their backs