Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe - Paris, France
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N 48° 50.991 E 002° 20.327
31U E 451491 N 5410975
This theater was originally opened in 1782 by Marie-Antoinette.
Waymark Code: WMD3MB
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 11/14/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member lumbricus
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This is the third reconstruction of this theater. The present structure opening in 1819.
Wikipedia (visit link) further informs us:
"The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (formerly the Théâtre de l'Odéon) is one of France's six national theatres.

It is located at 2 rue Corneille in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg Garden. It was originally built between 1779 and 1782, in the garden of the former Hôtel de Condé, to a Neoclassical design by Charles De Wailly and Marie-Joseph Peyre, originally in order to house the Comédie Française, which, however, preferred to stay at the Théâtre-Français in the Palais Royal. The new theatre was inaugurated by Marie-Antoinette on April 9, 1782.[1] It was there that The Marriage of Figaro play was premiered two years later.

An 1808 reconstruction of the theater designed by Jean Chalgrin (architect of the Arc de Triomphe) was officially named the Théâtre de l'Impératrice, but everyone still called it the Odéon.[2] It burned in 1818."
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