Disclaimer: "Moulin Rouge!" and all related items such as characters, words and etc. do not belong to me, in fact, a part of me belongs to it. Though Mont Marte and New Paris do.I guess.

Note: The whole French searching for a new life and immigrating to England is fictional.



Before



Christian James was the prodigal son of no one. He was an orphan. An orphan at the Red Mill Orphanage. He was taken under the wing of the mischievous Harry Zidler, but was watched out after by the gentle and caring Marie Zidler-his wife, nonetheless. He had lived there ever since he could possibly remember. The Zidlers ran the orphanage and often put on plays played by the children, and Christian was always the writer. The orphanage put on plays because they could no longer depend on charity to pay for all the bills. They were, after all, just another orphanage in a small village near a big city. In fact, the village was quite poor and the city were full of rich snobs who donated only for tax and image reasons. The village was called Mont Marte, and the city was New Paris. It was a new city and village in England, which name would soon change. But for the time that Christian walked the Earth, it was Mont Marte and New Paris. Many of the French had traveled to England in search for a new life. And the Zidlers were at the top of revolution. They had called it the revolution of true freedom and it's beauty that is love. Also known as the first bohemian revolution. Christian James was the first orphan to have been at the orphanage. His mother was killed by a robber when he was just a baby and his father had gone insane and killed himself, leaving him penniless and alone. That was in 1761, it was now 1784. And he wanted to become a writer. He'd been in the middle of the revolution all his life, but now, it was time to join it.

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Satine Bernhardt was the prodigal daughter of Lana Bernhardt and William Chatue. Two very famous actors. She lived with her mother, but was raised by her older brother, Nathan Chatue. The two, but same, family lived in Old London in France. Though her parent's fortune came from acting, they invested their money and became very rich, and successful. Richer, and more successful. In fact, neither of the two even liked acting. And neither of them wanted or appreciated Satine's dreams of becoming an actress. But big brother Nathan was always there to support her. He was relatively older than she was, and he became a businessman, which made their parents simply glow, but he still supported Satine and her dreams which made her glow. And he supported her even when she decided to become a real actress and decided to go off to Mont Marte in New Paris and join the revolution which was still revelating since 1761. And it was now 1784. She had been surrounded by acting all her life, but now, was the time to join it.



Note: I hope you liked it. And this is the intro to the first part of my story, which has three part, might as well be only two, but I hope you bare with it until I really get into the plot. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!