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Théâtre Du Panthéon
The Théâtre du Panthéon was a theatre building in Paris, at 96 (now 46) rue Saint-Jacques ( 5th arrondissement). It opened in 1832 and closed in 1844. It was named after the nearby Panthéon. History It was built in 1831 on the remains of the église Saint-Benoît to designs by Alexandre Bourla and commissioned by Éric Bernard, an actor at the Odéon. It opened on 18 March 1832 with ''Un panorama'', a vaudeville by Thomas Sauvage. Bernard gathered a cast of a dozen actors alongside whom he put on nearly fifty shows in a single year, but such a high turnover took its toll on his health and he passed its management to MM. Georges and Pierre Perrin fils in February 1833. They put on the first appearances of Mademoiselle Judith, which proved promising, but even so the new managers gave up after only two months. The theatre reopened on 1 September 1835 under the management of Tard, who brought in a totally new troupe of actors. He was so successful that Tard was offered the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rue Saint-Jacques (Paris)
Rue Saint-Jacques is a street in the Latin Quarter of Paris which lies along the ''cardo'' of Roman Lutetia. Boulevard Saint-Michel, driven through this old quarter of Paris by Baron Haussmann, relegated the roughly parallel Rue Saint-Jacques to a backstreet, but it was a main axial road of medieval Paris, as the buildings that still front it attest. It was the starting point for pilgrims leaving Paris to make their way along the '' Chemin de Saint-Jacques'' that led eventually to Santiago de Compostela. The Paris base of the Dominican Order was established in 1218 under the leadership of Pierre Seilhan (or Seila) in the Chapelle Saint-Jacques, close to the Porte Saint-Jacques, on this street; this is why the Dominicans were called ''Jacobins'' in Paris. Thus the street's name is indirectly responsible for the Jacobin Club in the French Revolution getting that name (being based in a former Jacobin monastery, itself located elsewhere). Johann Heynlin and Guillaume Fichet establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Du Palais-Royal
The Théâtre du Palais-Royal () is a 750-seat Parisian theatre at 38 rue de Montpensier, located at the northwest corner of the Palais-Royal in the Galerie de Montpensier at its intersection with the Galerie de Beaujolais. Brief history Originally known as the Théâtre des Beaujolais, it was a puppet theatre with a capacity of about 750 that was built in 1784 to the designs of the architect Victor Louis. In 1790 it was taken over by Mademoiselle Montansier and became known as the Théâtre Montansier. She began using it for plays and Italian operas translated into French and the following year hired Louis to enlarge the stage and auditorium, increasing its capacity to 1300. After Napoleon's decree on the theatres in 1807 introduced significant constraints on the types of pieces that could be performed, it was used for lighter fare, such as acrobatics, rope dancing, performing dogs, and Neapolitan puppets. In 1812 the theatre was converted into a café with shows. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In The 5th Arrondissement Of Paris
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatres In Paris
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice Pav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Durantin
Anne-Adrien-''Armand'' Durantin, also called Armand de Villevert, (4 April 1818 – 30 December 1891) was a 19th-century French playwright and novelist. Biography First a lawyer, Durantin turned to literature and collaborated with the ''France littéraire'' and the ''Echo français'' as well as with other magazines. He then began to write theatre plays but success remained modest until the day the Théâtre du Gymnase announced a comedy in four acts, without the author's name, entitled ''Heloise Paranquet''. How Montigny, then director of the Gymnase, had mounted this play aroused public attention. The success the play obtained, thanks to the skilful handling of dramatic situations, had critics trying to find who the author was, a name that the ''Cabinet littéraire'' soon unveiled. Only later was it learned that Durantin had benefited the collaboration of Alexandre Dumas fils. Durantin also injected his legal expertise in this play, but when he tried to repeat the feat with ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Jaime
Jean-François-Ernest Jaime (28 April 1804 – 7 June 1884) was a French watercolourist, lithographer, art historian and playwright. He was the father of dramatist Adolphe Jaime (1824–1901). He collaborated to ''Le Figaro'' and '' La Caricature''. His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of the 19th century: Variétés, Gaîté, Palais-Royal, etc. He also authored some songs. Works Theatre *1832: ''La Sylphide'', drama in 2 acts mixed with song, with Jules Seveste *1832: ''Le Chevreuil'', comédie en vaudevilles in 3 acts, with Léon Halévy *1832: ''Folbert, ou le Mari de la cantatrice'', comedy in 1 act mixed with song, with Halévy *1832: ''Une course en fiacre'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts *1832: ''Le Grand Seigneur et la Paysanne, ou Une leçon d'égalité'', comedy in 2 acts mixed with song, with Halévy and de Leuven *1832: ''Grillo, ou le Prince et le banquier'', comédie en vaudevilles in 2 acts, with Halévy *1832: ''La M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Halévy
Léon Halévy (4 January 1802 – 2 September 1883) was a French civil servant, historian, and dramatist. Early life Born to a Jewish family in Paris, Léon was the son of the writer and chazzan Élie Halévy and the younger brother of the composer Jacques François Fromenthal Halévy. He was educated at the Lycée Charlemagne. Career Halévy became a disciple and collaborator of Saint-Simon, aiding in the foundation of his journal, ''Le Producteur,'' and writing the introduction to his work, ''Opinions Littéraires, Philosophiques et Industrielles,'' in which Olinde Rodrigues and Étienne-Martin Bailly also assisted. In 1828 he wrote a ''History of the Jews in Modern Times'', one of the earliest works on this topic. In 1831, Halévy became an assistant professor of French literature at the Ecole Polytechnique, where there was some discrimination against Jews. However he abandoned the position three years later. In 1837, Halévy was attached to the Ministry of Public In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Basset
Alexandre-André Basset (1790 – 22 April 1870) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Alexandre and d'Ornoy. From May 1845 to May 1848, he was managing director of the Opéra-Comique The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne .... Theatre *1824: ''Veuve et Garçon'', one-act comédie en vaudeville with Emmanuel Théaulon, and Théodore Pernot de Colombey, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique (14 December) *1829: ''Le Cousin Frédéric ou la Correspondance'', one-act comédie-vaudeville with Étienne Arago and Émile de Rougemont, Théâtre du Vaudeville (7 February) *1831: ''Heur et Malheur'', vaudeville, with Félix-Auguste Duvert and Augustin-Théodore de Lauzanne de Vauroussel, Vaudeville (19 April) *1831: ''Les Enfants du pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Comte
The Théâtre Comte, also called Théâtre des Jeunes-Élèves (the latter name revived from a previous theatre, on a different site, in the rue de Thionville, that had been closed down by Napoleon's decree of June 1807), was a Parisian entertainment venue founded by the ventriloquist and magician Louis Comte in 1820. The building was located in the passage des Panoramas of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. The comedian Hyacinthe made his debut in the place in 1821. In 1826, Louis Comte had to leave the passage des Panoramas for security reasons. He then commissioned the architects Allard and Brunneton the construction of a new hall in the Choiseul area being redeveloped at that time. With double access to passage Choiseul and rue Neuve-Ventadour (current rue Monsigny), it was inaugurated on 23 January 1827. In 1846, a law prohibiting children to play in the Theaters, Louis Comte gave up the direction to his son Charles. Jacques Offenbach took the lease in 1855 and set up his th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Arrondissement Of Paris
The 5th arrondissement of Paris (''Ve arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''le cinquième''. The arrondissement, also known as Panthéon, is situated on the Rive Gauche of the River Seine. It is one of the capital's central arrondissements. The arrondissement is notable for being the location of the Quartier Latin, a district dominated by universities, colleges and prestigious high schools since the 12th century when the University of Paris was created. It is also home to the National Museum of Natural History and Jardin des plantes in its eastern part. The 5th arrondissement is also one of the oldest districts of the city, dating back to ancient times. Traces of the area's past survive in such sites as the Arènes de Lutèce, a Roman amphitheatre, as well as the Thermes de Cluny, a Roman ''thermae''. Geography The 5th arrondissement covers some 2.541 km² (0.981 sq. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mademoiselle Judith
Julie Bernat (30 January 1827 – 27 October 1912), known by her stage name of Mademoiselle Judith, was a French actress. Life She entered the Comédie-Française company in 1846 and was made its 274th Sociétaire in 1852. She left the company in 1866. Appearances Comédie-Française * 1846: ''Le Barbier de Séville'' by Beaumarchais: Rosine * 1847: ''Un poète'' by Jules Barbier: Laetice * 1847: ''Pour arriver'' by Émile Souvestre: Juliette * 1847: ''Le Misanthrope'' by Molière: Eliante * 1847: ''Tartuffe'' by Molière: Mariane * 1847: ''Les Aristocraties'' by Étienne Arago: Laurence * 1847: '' Un caprice'' by Alfred de Musset: Mathilde * 1847: '' Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre'' by Molière: Elvire * 1848: ''Le Puff ou Mensonge et vérité'' by Eugène Scribe: Antonia * 1848: ''Thersite'' by Villarceaux: Niséis * 1848: ''Le roi attend'' by George Sand: Madeleine Béjart * 1848: ''La Marquise d'Aubray'' by Charles Lafont: Valentine * 1848: ''La Rue Quinca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sauvage
Thomas-Marie-François Sauvage (1794 - May 1877) was a French dramatist, theatre director and critic. He collaborated with Adolphe Adam (an ''opéra comique'' in two acts ''Le Toréador'', 1849), Albert Grisar (''Gilles ravisseur'', 1838 ; ''L'Eau merveilleuse'', 1839 ; ''Les Porcherons'', 1850), François Bazin (composer), François Bazin (''Madelon'', 1852), Napoléon Henri Reber (''Le Père Gaillard'', 1852) and Ambroise Thomas (''Angélique et Médor'', 1843 ; an opéra bouffon or opéra bouffe ''Le Caïd'', 1849 ; ''La Tonelli'', 1853 ; ''Le Carnaval de Venise'', 1857 ; ''Gilles et Gillotin'', 1874). He was managing director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon from 1827 to 1828. Bibliography *Christian Goubault, « Thomas-Marie-François Sauvage » in Joël-Marie Fauquet (dir.), ''Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIX siècle'', Fayard, Paris, 2003 () {{DEFAULTSORT:Sauvage, Thomas-Marie-Francois 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French opera librettists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
