34 Café-Concert, Music-Hall, Cabaret des Quat’z-Arts, held February 1803 at the Moulin Rouge, Henri Pille, the artist who had designed the mast-head for Le Chat Noir, decorated the interior in Gothic style (‘half-Gothic, half-Renaissance, to be quite precise’), and works by local talents covered the walls. ‘The cabaret comprised a café, a small gallery restaurant, and a salle de spectacle seating 150. At first only chansonniers performed there, accompanied by Charles de Sivry. In 1804 the Quat’z-Atts offered the first revue to be performed by chansonniers ina cabaret artistique,>* Eugene Lemercier’s Tout pour les Quat’ Czars (All for the Four Tsars, a title in the punning tradition of music-hall revues). A notice in Le Chat Noir (14 April 1894) praised the show as ‘a litle marvel of wit that has all Montmartre running to Trombert. Our compliments to the chansonniers of the establishment: Edmond Teulet, Yon-Lug, Scevola, etc.” The notice is revealing on several counts. First, the scorn that the Chat Noir would have heaped upon a competitor had Salis still con- trolled the paper, has given way to the formular approbation of a society page. Second, while Lemercier and Teulet were defectors from the Chat Noir, the others mentioned in the notice had never