BAL RAT MORT
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A masked and costumed philanthropic ball that has been organised every year in Ostend since 1896.
The story of the Bal Rat Mort goes back to the Paris of the Belle Époque. A group of sixteen Ostenders invited by Edgar Quinet (French historian, poet and philosopher) came to Paris in 1896, including James Ensor, famous painter, engraver and anarchist. The group discovered the Moulin Rouge, the Pigalle cabarets and ended up in the early hours of the morning at the Rat Mort rade. In memory of this wild night, James Ensor organized a masked and costumed philanthropic ball in Ostend for the first time in 1898. Every year thereafter!
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