Simenon : Rue des Ecoliers n°35

A sign evokes the former cabaret L'âne Rouge, showing that this venue witnessed the establishment of a cabaret in 1972 aiming to maintain the memory of the one on Rue Sur-la-Fontaine, where Simenon, almost fifty years earlier, first tasted nocturnal life. Today, the cabaret is no more, but the sign remains. The cabaret on Rue Sur-la-Fontaine inspired a novel written in 1932 called L'âne Rouge (The Red Ass), whose action takes place in Nantes.