page_title: Cabaret de L'Enfer
section_title: The Cabaret de l'Enfer, the Cabaret du Ciel, and the Cabaret du Néant
hierarchical_section_title: Cabaret de L'Enfer / The Cabaret de l'Enfer, the Cabaret du Ciel, and the Cabaret du Néant
caption_attribution_description: English: Cabaret de l'Enfer and cabaret le Ciel
context_page_description: Cabaret de l'Enfer was a famous cabaret in Montmartre, founded in November 1892 by Antonin Alexander and demolished in 1950 to allow for the expansion of a Monoprix supermarket. The Cabaret de L'Enfer was the counterpart to The Cabaret du Ciel, another cabaret which shared the same address on the Boulevard de Clichy. Antonin Alexander was the creator, director, and host of the twin ventures.
  Jules Claretie, who wrote that future historians of the mores of the Belle Epoque "could not silently pass by these cabarets", described them as "putting Dante's poem within walking distance". For Georges Renault and Henri Château, "Le Ciel and L'Enfer, gaping wide-open all in a row" was worthy of the label "spectacular". The flâneurs of Paris entered through the monumental jaws of Leviathan, devourer of the damned. The intimidating façade was "a stucco ode to female nudity being devoured by infernal flames".
context_section_description: Situated at the foot of the hill of Montmartre, in the 18th arrondisement of Paris, The Cabaret de l'Enfer was a precursor to theme restaurants, whose ambience was its main attraction, and only occasionally hosted café singers. In 1895, three years after opening at 34 Boulevard de Clichy, Antonin moved the establishment down the street to number 53, where it remained for more than half a century.
  Meanwhile, the original location was purchased by a competitor, the illusionist Dorville, and his administrator, Roger, who opened a "cabaret macabre", the Cabaret du Néant (Cabaret of the Void), which specialized in more sinister "invocations of what lies beyond the grave", while the Cabaret du Ciel (Cabaret of Heaven) joyfully proposed "mystical illusions" and the Cabaret of Hell, "magic tricks".
caption: Cabaret de l'Enfer and Cabaret du  Ciel (Cabaret of Hell and Cabaret of Heaven)
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