At 27 years of age, the Greedy is at the top of his art, that of the french cancan. It comes from all over Europe to see it lift its legs on the stage of the Moulin-Rouge, of which she is the undoubted star. When the owner of the hall Joseph Oller must choose a celebrity to inaugurate the new theater he has just to build on the Grands Boulevards, it is natural to be Greedy as he thinks.
Louise Josephine Weber, called la Goulue, was born in 1866 in a family of alsatian jewish descent installed at Clichy-la-Garenne. His father was a day labourer, his mother blanchiss…
