In 1926, near Moulin Rouge, the impresario and alleged count Giuseppe "Pepito" Abatino, created the cabaret Chez Joséphine for his star Josephine Baker.
[1] Marcel Ouizman, already managing Madame Arthur, took over Le Carrousel de Paris in October 1947, moving it to a basement on 40 rue du Colisée, near the Champs-Élysées.
Neighbors threatened legal action and forced Le Carrousel de Paris to close, with Ouizman reopening the cabaret only in 1951 on the street floor.
The programmes at Le Carrousel usually included a head shot of the performer's male persona in the corner of the glamour photograph – even for trans women looking for transition surgery like Coccinelle and Bambi.
Around that time Ouizman opened another Carrousel in Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera, and went to court to object to the police regulations that made his business illegal, winning the case.