La Belle Chat Noir

A parody by Henri de Toulouse-Nekojin of Theophile Steinlen's 1896 poster advertising a tour to other cities ("Coming soon") of the Le Chat Noir's troupe of cabaret entertainers, featuring our own Mademoiselle Noir, including her famed red sneakers. Le Chat Noir (French for "The Black Cat") was a nineteenth-century entertainment establishment, in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. It opened on 18 November 1881 at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart by the impresario Rodolphe Salis, and closed in 1897 not long after Salis' death.