The Moulin Rouge will restart its trademark red-and-gold windmill wings on Thursday, 10 July, at 22:45 local time, restoring one of Paris’s most recognisable landmarks. Dancers from the historic cabaret plan to perform outside the venue as the 12-metre-wide blades turn again, powered by a new made-to-measure electric motor. The windmill has been out of service since 25 April 2024, when a failure in its central axis caused the four wings to crash to the ground and shear off three letters from the illuminated façade. No one was hurt, but the incident left the 18th-arrondissement site without its signature feature during last year’s Olympic Games. Management installed replacement aluminium-and-steel wings ahead of the Games but needed another year to fit the bespoke drive system. According to director Jean-Victor Clérico, the restored mechanism will run every day from 16:00 to 02:00, using low-energy LED lighting. The cabaret, opened in 1889 and immortalised by Toulouse-Lautrec, attracts about 600,000 visitors a year and stages two nightly shows featuring a 90-member, 18-nationality troupe.