24 pages Edited by Yan Morvan Photograph(s) by Yan Morvan Text(s) Jean-Marc Barbieux 32 x 26 cm Language: French & English Paperback Publisher: Independant Paper Limited edition of 300 copies 2022
Six years later, almost to the day, on March 1, 78, a crowd of 2,000 guests thronged to 8 rue Montmartre. Fabrice Emaer, a gay nightclub owner on rue Sainte-Anne, wanted to give Paris an equivalent to Studio 54, which ruled New York nights. This is to be the “Palace”. At the door of this former cinema built in 1895, a physiognomist will sort out the happy-fews for five years. The son of a convict from Cayenne, her name is Jenny Bel-Air. Like her friends Marie-France, Paquita Paquin and Hélène Hazéra, who would also become stalwarts of the nightclub, they were former Gazolines. They were simply putting into practice the slogan they'd been tossing around to the bearded men of the GP: “Marre des gauchistes. Now it's champagne, coke and falbalas”.
