Madame Arthur is a drag cabaret venue in the Rue des Martyrs, 18th arrondissement of Paris. It is named after the eponymous song.

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Madame Arthur opened in 1946 as the first female impersonator cabaret,^[1] which took its name from the famous song written in 1860 by Paul de Kock and performed by Yvette Guilbert.^[2]

On its boards performed renowned transgender and drag artists such as Coccinelle,^[3] Baddabou, Cricri, Chantaline Erika Keller, Estelle Roederer, Angélique Lagerfeld, Chablie, Yeda Brown,^[4] Dominot^[5] and Bambi.^[1] Joseph Ginsburg, the father of Serge Gainsbourg, was a pianist there. Gainsbourg himself sometimes replaced him, and composed some songs there for the cabaret revue, songs which were his first compositions but were not published until after his death.^[6] Some of those songs (Zita la panthère, Meximambo, Tragique cinq à sept), have not been found.^[7]

Having been closed for many years, it was entirely restored and reopened in November 2015 by Divan du Monde, which has the neighbouring venue.^[1][8] Nowadays a troupe of artists offers the public covers of songs in French, classic or more modern, accompanied by piano and accordion.