ABSTRACT
By the time the century had turned, the cabaret had been in existence in Paris for some twenty years. Throughout its history it had served both as a centre for spectacle and as a meeting place for artists. Now, in these years whose imaginative exuberance was to give direction to art for the next half-century, the cabaret became increasingly a salon for the avantgarde, a place where ideas were hatched, and hoaxes concocted.
