Bon pour une danse - A la Boule Rouge - Paris [75] ND

Reverse

Script: Latin

Lettering: BON POUR UNE DANSE

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Plain

Comment

The origins of this 11th arrondissement ball probably date back to 1850, when it was run by an Auvergnat. In 1923, Léon Pouyet took over the reins of the establishment, which he christened the Vieux bal des familles. An accordionist and cabretta player himself, he was no stranger to the world of bals musette. All the more so as his father Pierre Alphonse Pouyet ran the ball at the Petit Balcon until 1909. The Boule Rouge sign was used in 1926. On the eve of the Second World War, Pouyet gave up paying for dancing. He handed the ball over to his son Raoul Pouyet in 1968, before it closed its doors in 1980.
Note the different decorations on the reverse compared with the token referenced 658.