The Moulin de la Galette will not disappear!

Clinging to the side, almost at the top of the Montmartre hill, the Moulin de la Galette is a monument well known to Parisians and even to provincials who, often, know Paris and its curiosities better than those who were born there.
A very popular public ball, it once rivaled the Mabille ball and later with Bullier, despite the distance that separates them.
Did he want to try to reclaim its former splendor and compete with the Moulin Rouge itself?
There is talk of expanding the ballroom soon and, to carry out this transformation, it will apparently be necessary to remove the old windmill itself, the Moulin Radet.
Deprived of this illustrious sign the new establishment would lose all its meaning, but that is another matter which concerns the owner alone.
In the meantime, this project has stirred up the old people of Montmartre who cry sacrilege and in whose name Mr. Jean Varenne, representative of the Grandes-Carrières district, has just brought the question to the forum of the Municipal Council.
He recalled that in 1913 the owner, Mr. Debray, had himself offered this mill to the City of Paris, and that the Municipal Council had voted the necessary credits to transfer it to another point in Montmartre, on Place Jean -Baptiste-Clément.
Today, given the rate of increase in work, the credits voted ten years ago have become very insufficient. Mr. Varenne therefore insists that the case be taken up again with its financial consequences. It was thus decided.
The Municipal Council was right to follow the district representative, because this operation, which will not dig a very deep hole in the Parisian budget, is a necessary act.
The Moulin de la Galette has become a true historical monument to which the history of Old Montmartre is linked.
Many Parisians imagine that it was always a fake mill serving as a picturesque sign for a place of pleasure.
On the contrary, it was at the authentic mill, one of the many mills whose wings turned on the Montmartre hill in order to convert the wheat brought to them into flour.
In 1814, the miller Debray, ancestor of the current owner, defended his mill, rifle in hand, against the invader. Shot by the Cossacks, his grave can still be seen in the small cemetery adjoining the old church of Montmartre.
Let’s not let the Moulin de la Galette disappear! It represents both one of the aspects of Old Paris and a page in the history of France.

The Alderman.