Map Graph

Café des Ambassadeurs

Former café-concert in Paris, France

The Café des Ambassadeurs, also known as Les Ambassadeurs or Les Ambass', was a café-concert located in the Champs-Élysées district, at 1 Avenue Gabriel, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, which opened around 1830 and closed in 1929. Les Ambassadeurs had its heyday during the Belle Époque in Paris when the café-concert became a regular destination of some of the best known figures of art and the demi-monde in Paris. Painters such as Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec portrayed artists and visitors at the caf'conc and almost every vaudeville and music hall entertainer that mattered in those days performed in Les Ambass' . In the 1920s, the venue was transformed into an American-style music hall, which had American and African-American artists, singers, dancers and jazz orchestras performing to attract the growing number of American tourists in Paris.

Read article
File:Edgar_Germain_Hilaire_Degas_038.jpgFile:Béraud_-_Offenstadt,_229.pngFile:Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec,_Ducarre_at_the_Ambassadeurs_(Ducarre_aux_ambassadeurs),_1893,_NGA_33929.jpgFile:Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec_002.jpgFile:Paris_l'été._Restaurant_des_Ambassadeurs._Champs-Elysées_affiche.jpgFile:AMBASSADEURS_PAULUS_LE_CHANTEUR_POPULAIRE,_AFF1955.jpgFile:Eugenie_Fougere_Ambassadeurs.jpgFile:Eugénie_Buffet_-_Ambassadeurs_LCCN2005693041.jpgFile:Tous_les_soirs_aux_Ambassadeurs_Yvette_Guilbert_affiche,_Henri_Dumont.jpgFile:Blackbirds_1926_in_Les_Ambassadeurs_-_Ad_in_NY_Herald_27-5-1926.pngFile:Interior-ambassadeurs-theatre-restaurant-blackbirds.jpgFile:Blackbirds-of-1926_florence-mills-johnny-hudgins_and-chorus-girls-rehearse_roof-of-london-pavilion_1_t0f15.jpg
Top Questions
AI generated

List the top facts about Café des Ambassadeurs

Summarize this article

What is the single most intriguing fact about Café des Ambassadeurs?

Are there any controversies surrounding Café des Ambassadeurs?

More questions