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Alexander Kazakevich

Jacques Prévert: A battle to save the poet's former apartment from Moulin-Rouge expansion

Whitewashed walls carved with niches, curved corners, floors covered with parquet and Provençal floor tiles, right in the middle of Montmartre. Inside, a desk, countless paintings and books, an advertisement for a convenience store television, hung with a drawing pin, pencils, scattered portraits of Brigitte Bardot and General Charles de Gaulle.

Jacques Prévert's flat at 6bis Cité Véron, in the backyard of the famous Moulin-Rouge cabaret, bright but not luxurious, which had previously always been open to the poet's famous contemporaries and anonymous friends, could soon cease to exist.

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