Figure 1-- The Moulin de la Galette, or Mill of the Cake, at Montmartre. Also famous in paris was the Moulib Rouge, a night club. Here we see an arly color photograph by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont in 1923. His images were taken using the autochrome technique in which the plates are covered in microscopic red, green and blue colored potato starch grains.

The Moulin de la Galette is not a park, but is famous recreational area in Paris. Moulin meams mill. Moulin à ventis means windmill. It is the a famous windmill and related businesses that deceloped on a hill located the district of Montmartre in Paris. The mill since the 17th century the windmill has taken on considerable fame. Thnis began with the Napoleonic Wars. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, allied European armies including the Russianms invaded France and attacked Paris (1814). The mill was owned by the Debray family who defended the mill against Cossacks. Three family membrers were killed. The Cossacks nailed one to the wings of the windmill. France foughtbanotherr war, this time with the Prussians. Some 20,000 Prussian soldiers attacked the hill and mill. Pierre-Charles Debray was killed and nailed to the wings of the windmill. A mass grave for those killed during the siege was dug just steps away from the windmill. The Debray family, made a brown bread (galett) which became popular. An associated businnes sporing up--a guinguette and restaurant. Guinguettes were popular drinking establishment. The first were establishef outside the customs barrier of Paris. A network drinking establishments grew uo in the villages arond Paris. They were especially popular venues on Sundays and holidays for working-class Parisans.. They were places to socialize and drink wine -- eesenbtallly a cheap drunk. Impressonist artists (Renoir, van Gogh, and Pissarro) immortalized Le Moulin de la Galette. Renoir's festive painting, 'Bal du moulin de la Galette' is among the most famous if the Impressionists paitings. In France today, the term 'guinguette' means a waterside refreshment stand, usually open-air.