La Nouvelle Ève, Pigalle revue hall since 1897

La Nouvelle Ève, a cabaret on rue Pierre-Fontaine at the foot of Pigalle, occupies a small hall that opened on 24 December 1897 as the Champ-de-Foire. The following season the mime Séverin revived the Funambules of the old boulevard du Crime there.

The hall changed name and purpose many times: Fantaisies-Parisiennes in 1903, the actor Camille Choisy’s Nouveau-Théâtre in 1911, then song recitals by Damia and Georgius. Reopened in 1923 as the Théâtre Fontaine by the Belgian Léo Berryer, it turned to revue as the Gaîty-Théâtre, then to Marcel Nancey’s thrillers.

In 1949 René Bardy, owner of the Ève cabaret on place Pigalle, bought the hall and renamed it La Nouvelle Ève. The architect Maurice Gridaine and the decorator Rigal redid it in Belle Époque style, and the seats gave way to dinner-show tables. Paul Colin drew its poster around 1950, and Bernard and Adrien Pierini became the owners in 1966.

Between Blanche and Pigalle, the house keeps the intimacy of its 280 covers around a small stage. Guests dine before the revue ‘Paris je t’aime’, somewhere between music hall and cabaret, or come for the show alone, a glass of champagne in hand.