The Folies Bergère is a cabaret music hall in Paris, France. Located at 32 Rue Richer in the 9th Arrondissement, the Folies Bergère was originally built as an opera house by the architect Plumeret.

It opened on 2 May 1869 as the Folies Trévise, with light entertainment including operettas, opéra comique (comic opera), popular songs, and gymnastics. It became the Folies Bergère on 13 September 1872, named after a nearby street, Rue Bergère ("bergère" means "shepherdess"). From 1893 to 1899, Paul Lincke was the music director of Folies Bergère and composed this march in its honor in 1911.

Carl Emil Paul Lincke (7 November 1866, Berlin - 3 September 1946, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany) was a German composer and conductor. He composed a significant number of marches, but he was best known in the early part of this century for his operettas, which differed enough in style from the Viennese genre to warrant the designation ‘Berlin operetta.’ He showed a deep interest in music from childhood and made rapid progress in his study of violin and bassoon. He later learned to play piano, horn, and percussion instruments. Lincke is credited with over 500 published works, including at least 40 marches and 33 operettas. A decade after his death in Clausthal-Zellerfeld in 1946, the West German Government issued a postage stamp in his honor which showed an excerpt from his Berliner Luft Marsch.