Jardin de Moulin-Rouge

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In this photo is interesting elephant, which stood from 1890 to 1906 in the garden of the Moulin Rouge. According to legend, the owners of establishments Joseffy Oller and Charles Zidler bought it and installed in the garden of the 1889 World's Fair exposition of the year. Many have tried to find an exhibition of photographs of an elephant, but no one was able, although this is a very large object - about 20 meters vysotu.Slon was wooden, plastered the texture of elephant skin. In one of the legs was a spiral staircase on it could go up to a room on the back of an elephant, which for a fee to customers WIRE private dances and gave opium.Pri reconstruction Moulin Rouge in 1906, an elephant was dismantled.