Nouvelle Athènes
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The Nouvelle Athènes was a cafe on place Pigalle in Paris, France. The cafe was a meeting place for the impressionists including Matisse, Van Gogh and Degas. L'absinthe by Degas was painted in the cafe. In the 1940's, the cafe was known as the Sphynx, a famous striptease frequented by the Nazis and later by the liberation troops. In the 1980's and 90's it was known as the New Moon, a rock venue where Mano Negra, the French lovers, Noir Desir, Calvin Russel, the WAMPAS and many other groups performed. The cafe was destroyed in 2004.
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