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Bowes Museum, 2004. 53 p., ill.  ISBN 0954818202."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Nancy Ireson, ed. <u>Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril. Beyond the Moulin Rouge</u> London: The Courtauld Gallery, 2011. ISBN: 9781907372247.\n\nThe following excerpt is from p. 86:\r\n\r\n'...when the poster appeared in January 1893, Guilbert had already stopped performing at the Divan. The future of the club was somewhat uncertain. Edouard Fournier (whose name appears on the lower left of the poster) had recently taken over from Jehan Sarrazin, a poet, who owned the Divan from 1888 and who had tempted in customers with free Provencal olives. The change had caused some of the stars to move on. One aim of the poster then must have to been to imply to customers that all was still in order. 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