Notable Events
In 1908, a celebration banquet for Henri Rousseau was organized in Picasso's studio in the Bateau-Lavoir.
One night, Amedeo Modigliani destroyed a number of his friends' paintings while in an alcoholic rage in the Bateau-Lavoir, according to memoirs of his daughter, Jeanne.
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