Restoring the Mill of the Wafer 75018 Paris 18th Arrdt a legend of Montmartre Of the fourteen mills located on the Hillock of Montmartre which were used for grinding corn and the flowers, pressing the grape harvest, or crushing materials, only two still remain aujourdhui: Bolt-end and Radet, going back to 1717, just above the restaurant. These two mills formed celebrates it together Mill of Wafer. The wafer was this rye bread roll that the Debray millers, owners of the place, sold accompanied dun glass by milk. After the defense of the Hillock against the Prussians in 1814 the Debray family finds itself destroyed. They transformed milk into wine of muscatel and the Mill of Wafer in popular ball in the years 1860. Environment is relaxed there and the customers more popular than in the other establishments. Renoir painted there celebrates it table of the Ball of the Mill of Wafer (currently with the museum dOrsay), Van Gogh the gardens of Ridges-Montmartre but also Utrillo, Dufy, Bernard, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso immortalisé this famous Moulin, in which the Paris Whole came sencanailler and to admire the reviews of Goulue, Nini Patte to lair some and Nid dislike After having been used as variety, one saw there a studio of television with lORTF, then finally a restaurant attended in the Eighties by a famous Egyptian artist of dorigine varieties, Dalida. |
