Whilst now looking very "mock", this was indeed historically used as a mill, and was earlier restored to a true mill appearance with parts from another historic french mill. However in 1999 the tower was largely destroyed in a fire, and the current appearance created.
[homepage] [info]Whilst the mill represented outside this famous Paris nightclub is nothing more than a neon outlined fake, it's so well known that it would be churlish not to give it some recognition on these pages.
Of course, the nightclub also gave rise to the Nicole Kidman film Moulin Rouge - the latest of 6 films with this title. [homepage] [info] [info] [info] [info] [photo] [photo] [photo] [photo] [photo] [photo] [photo] [info]A small, almost model mill, which advertises the Au Moulin Vert restaurant on the site of an old mill which became a tavern in 1848.
[homepage]Whilst surviving paintings do not necessarily give a true picture of what the windmills once looked like, they are at least a start, and a familiar introduction to the mills of this area.
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