Promotional postcards of Madame La Goulue, Nana Sauterelle and Nini- patte-en-l’air who were presumably promoting themselves as they danced the can-can at the Moulin Rouge, sometimes knocking off customers’ hats with a high kick.

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“La Goulue” et une autre danseuse de French cancan (Nana Sauterelle ?), de face, une jambe en l’air. Nana Sauterelle being on the right. 1895-1900. Albumen print. Publisher not known. Collections of the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/in/imageReader.xhtml?id=p::usmarcdef_0000805143&ark=/ark:/73873/pf0000805143&highlight=Subject:%20%22La%20Goulue%20(1866-1929)%22
Nana Sauterelle danseuse de French cancan, une jambe en l’air et les bras levés. From the same photo shoot. 1895-1900. Albumen print. Publisher not known. Collections of the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0000805141/v0001.simple.highlight=Subject:%20%22Cancan%20(danse)%22.selectedTab=record
Nini patte en l’air. 1895-1900. Gelatin photographic print. Publisher not known. Collections of the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand. Photograph itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/search/26c286f6-092b-4ed7-9f55-6526a2044a8b
Madame La Goulue and a friend whose name is too faded out to read, the stamp on the back reading Bibliothèque nationale Dèpartment des Art de Spectacle. From a collection of Madame La Goulue photographs and documents. Gallica.Bnf.fr, the BBibliothèque nationale de France. Photograph in the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52509589p/f15.item.r=Gouloue

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