The cabaret is the central point of the novel of Pierre Mac Orlan "Quai des brumes" published in 1927. Marcel Carné drew from it a film, released in 1938 whose action was delocalized in Le Havre, a port in Normandy.

This house built in 1825 became the "Cabaret des Assassins" in 1869. Renamed "A ma campagne", then André Gill painted the sign, a rabbit cook with a pan,  and the place became "Au Lapin agile". In 1913, the well-known singer Aristide Bruant bought it to save it from demolition and entrusted management to Frédé.

Among the decoration, the Christ, a plaster of  Wasley and the painting of Pablo Picasso offered to Frédé in 1905 "At the Lapin Agile" or "Harlequin with a Glass" which is now in Metropolitan Museum of Art of NewYork.
The Harlequin is a self-portrait of the author, the woman represents Germaine Laure Gargallo, the guitarist is not other than Frédé.

"Sunset on the Adriatic Sea » of Joachim-Raphaël Boronali

Linked  to  this place, the more famous hoax was organized by the well-known writer Roland Dorgelès, with his friends André Warnod and  Jules Depaquit, which made paint, with report of usher, Lolo, the ass of Frédé, with a brush fixed on the tail, a painting which was exposed with many success to the Exhibition of Independents  in 1910. This painting was presented as emanating from Master Joachim-Raphaël Boronali, of the School of the Excessivisme; Boronali being the anagram of Aliboron.

In 1993 Steve Martin wrote the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile", a hypothetical meeting between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in this cabaret in 1904.