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"Dans cette ecole, il y a/ Des oiseaux chantant tout le jour Dans les marronniers de la cour./ Mon coeur, mon coeur, mon coeur qui bat Est la."

German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Tightrope Walk and Russian painter Boris Grigoriev’s Café Chantant, for example, reveal a penchant for common urban happenings including circus and cabaret performances.

Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to create the poster by the owner of the Divan Japonais, a café chantant in Paris’s Montmartre neighborhood.

There are only five things the guides take you to see in Tangier—the caf� chantant, the governor's palace, the prisons, and the harem, to which men are not admitted.

The caf� chantant is a long room lined with mats, and with rugs scattered over the floor, on which sit musicians and the regular customers of the place, who play cards and smoke long pipes, with which they rap continually on the tin ash-holders.