JOSEPH OLLER

 

He was a Catalan man that founded the Moulin Rouge in Paris, a place where girls danced very sexy dances and that became very popular. He was a very important business man too; he started to bet in the horse races and invented the Spanish lottery called “la quiniela”. 

He opened the Moulin Rouge in the "place Blanche", in Montmartre ( a very small town in Paris).           

First of all, Moulin Rouge was a very old brothel where men wanted the girls do sexy dances for them, so the Madame there started to let the girls do striptease. Years later, Moulin Rouge was only a place where girls danced. Every day, the dances were less sexy and it finally became a cabaret bar. In the cabaret, the girls lived and rehearse for hours, so Moulin Rouge became the best cabaret of Paris.

Apart of the Moulin Rouge, Joseph founded the horse races of Saint Germain in 1882. And in 1885 he open  a swimming pool with a gym, a sauna… in Paris that became very famous too.