Quartier Pigalle

So the Grand Guignol is a theatre that opened in 1897, closed in 1963.

And it's in the Pigalle district of Paris, which is basically the red light district.

It's where the Moulin Rouge is most famously, but it's also close to Montmartre, which is the area where lots of artists were painting and doing cabarets and things like that.

The Grand Guignol opened originally to do kind of naturalism theatre, where they were making staging stories about, you know, the ills of society, how the lower classes are basically exploited and that sort of thing.

It was a famous Parisian theater operating from 1897 to 1962.

It was located in Pigalle, inside a former chapel.

It specialized in naturalistic graphic horror plays featuring explicit torture, murder, and madness.

Madness? Today, the term describes any style of shocking, bloody, or intensely visceral horror entertainment.

Now I want to see where it was located.

We have to go to the maps and find where.

Where was La Guignol? It says the Pigalle district, but the other thing said Montmartre.

So which one is it? I wonder if I can go.

Okay, well, the ninth is obviously, we're moving back up.

So the ninth arrondissement is, from opera through Pigalle over to Magenta, basically.

The 9th surprised me because...

There's not a lot going on in the 9th, really.