But the Moulin Rouge has notified Prévert’s granddaughter, Eugénie Bachelot-Prévert, who manages the museum, that it is terminating its lease. The heirs of Boris Vian, the novelist, poet and songwriter who lived across the landing from Prévert and was one of his closest friends, have also been told they will have to vacate the property at 6 bis Cité Véron. The Moulin Rouge has played down suggestions that it is destroying part of Paris’s literary heritage. Its red windmill dominates the view from the museum’s window. The cabaret, which is the home of the high-kicking can-can, was temporarily laid low...