We had a cold sweat, but in misfortune we find a little happiness, life is picking up ”,
assures Jean-Victor Clerico, general manager of the Moulin-Rouge, whose turnover fell by 85% in 2020. Attacks, "yellow vests", Covid, like theaters and cinemas, cabarets - around 200 in France, including forty in Paris - suffered the full force of the crisis.
They have just reopened, but under difficult conditions.
"We had not closed for so long since the fire of 1915"
, indicates the owner of the Moulin-Rouge.
"The period is one of the most serious that we have known",
says Richard Vergnes, director of Don Camilo, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, one of the few dedicated to humor, created by his father, Jean Vergnes, in 1953. For all the leaders of these festive places, the last ten -eight months were a
"nightmare",
a
"trauma"
.
"We are going to live a difficult period before finding a large clientele",
observes Fabrice Laffon at the head.
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