56, Café-Concert, Music-Hall, Cabaret If the Vachaleades ended in bankruptcy, the inventiveness of Trombert and his pensioners was far from exhausted. From the Quat’z-Arts the chansonniers Lucien Boyer and Numa Blés launched their world tour en chantant in 1903, When they returned two years later, they helped Trombert stage a spoof of the growing Parisian taste for grandiose athletic events: the Course des Chansonniers. The thirty participants embarked on a race of twenty kilometres, each composing as he walked a chanson on a topic assigned at the starting gate, ‘On the influence of hiking on foot corns’. The winners per- formed their creations that night at the cabaret. The Quat’z-Aits too had its house weekly, which appeared regu- larly from 6 November 1897 until 29 May 1898 and sporadically thereafter.” The masthead, designed by Willette, depicted four muses wading across the Seine from the Institut to a lyre-holding divinity situated on Montmartre by the black cat at her heel and the Moulin de la Galette in the background. Goudeau, ‘who seemed to turn up every time a new journal was founded’, edited the paper from 1897 until his death in 1906, Charles de Sivry, now music direc- tor at the Quat’z-Arts, published his memoirs in the journal. Vincent Hyspa (who had broken with Salis in 1894) contributed a series of humorous lectures under the rubric “Ecole Normale’. Over the