{"id":89602,"date":"2024-07-07T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/the-windmills-are-back-up-on-the-moulin-rouge\/"},"modified":"2024-07-07T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T15:00:11","slug":"the-windmills-are-back-up-on-the-moulin-rouge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/the-windmills-are-back-up-on-the-moulin-rouge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windmills Are Back Up on the Moulin Rouge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The moulin is back. The rouge never left.<\/p>\n

The Moulin Rouge, the famed Paris cabaret, has restored its iconic windmill after its blades broke and fell<\/a> to the ground in April. The construction was finished weeks before the Paris Olympics are set to begin \u2014 and before the flame passes by on its relay route through Paris on July 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to be ready for this special moment,\u201d said Jean-Victor Clerico, the managing director, whose family has run the cabaret since 1955, adding, \u201cThe Moulin Rouge without the blades? It\u2019s not the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cabaret, whose name means \u201cred windmill\u201d in French, has stayed open through the repairs. But it had stood functionally topless since April, when parts of the lettering also fell. No one was injured; a spokeswoman blamed a mechanical problem.<\/p>\n

Sympathy poured in from around the world, Mr. Clerico said. Fans sent in letters of support, he said. Some even wrote poems. For two months, the Moulin Rouge raced to remount the aluminum blades, pushing a metalwork company to work quickly to meet their deadline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n