Madame Arthur is the first gender-twist cabaret[1] in France, opened in 1946, taking its name from the famous song written in 1860 by Paul de Kock and performed by Yvette Guilbert.

In 2015, Madame Arthur's building was combined with the adjacent Divan du Monde to form a single cabaret club.

[citation needed] In 1861, the ballroom Sant-Flour Musette was transformed into Brasserie des Martyrs, patronized by people such as Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, and Jules Vallès.

In 1946, Marcel Ouizman (also spelled Oudjman, Ouissmann or Wutsman), a Jewish pied-noir who owned a club Le Binocle before the war,[3] chose the song Madame Arthur as the name of the cabaret he opened at Rue des Martyrs.

[4] In the 1950s, Ouizman's Madame Arthur and Le Carrousel attracted new generation of performers such as Coccinelle and Bambi, who sought after medical transition.

Some of the transgender and drag artists who performed at Madame Arthur include Coccinelle,[5] Baddabou, Cricri, Chantaline Erika Keller, Estelle Roederer, Angélique Lagerfeld, Chablie, Yeda Brown,[6] Dominot[7] and Bambi.

He was almost always dressed in pink satin pyjamas, didn't wear a wig, and with his naturally blond hair did a hairstyle that had something feminine about it.

- No, I haven't seen anyone ride" were infinitely funny, and every day, it was because our hosts, who often repeated the same gags, discovered new ones and lived intensely in front of their audience.

Twenty years of uninterrupted success, with no vacations.In 1961, Ouizman opened another cabaret called Madame Arthur in Amsterdam with two artists from Paris, Rita Del Ora and Capucine, and some local talent.

[1][11] Nowadays a troupe of artists offers the public covers of songs in French, classic or more modern, accompanied by piano and accordion.