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Petit Casino

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The Petit Casino is a Parisian concert hall located at 12 Boulevard Montmartre in the 9th arrondissement, now extinct. Inaugurated in 1893, this café-concert features artists from magazines, including those from the Toulouse network supported by Felix Mayol: Raimu, Tramel, Dranem, etc. Access to the room is via the Jouffroy Pass, in which the Grévin Theatre is also located.

The two rooms will share the same address from 1907 to 1927. From the 1910s he joined the network of producer Oscar Dufrenne with Folies-Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Café des Ambassadeurs, the Alcazar d'été, the Alhambra and the Concert-Parisien. In 1947, he was transformed into a cinema, L'Astor, before being attached to the town hall of the 9th arrondissement as the Rossini Hall.

A second Petit Casino was inaugurated in 1969 at 17 Chapon Street in the 3rd arrondissement, in an old plumbing shop. A 90-seat coffee theatre, its programming focuses on humor shows, one-man shows and dinner shows. It closed in January 2024.