fundraising was led in 1908 by Jessie M.Soga, contralto. A programme for a London Cafe Chantant shows the variety of performances ranging from music or talks, to clairvoyance and jujitsu. Prior to that, a Thé and Café Chantant event had been organised in 1900 in Edinburgh by Alice Low (suffragist) and an actor to raise money for a patriotic fund for Scottish soldiers. And later, a similar event for prisoners of war comforts fund, was organised by a 'tea committee' in Leamington Spa, during World War One in 1916. Literary uses Le Café Concert, was a book published by L’Estampe originale in 1893 about the French establishments of that day. The book contains text by Georges Montorgueil. It is illustrated with numerous lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec and Henri-Gabriel Ibels that mostly feature famous performers or customers from the contemporary Paris scene. The name Cafe Chantant appears in Araby, a short story by James Joyce (written c. 1904-1905; published 1914 in Dubliners) The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, by G. K. Chesterton (published 1908) Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann (published 1901) in German The Sundays of Jean Dézert, by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont (published 1914) References Music genres Fundraising events Belle Époque