The Théâtre Déjazet is a theatre on the

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’) in the 3rd arrondissement of

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, France. It was founded in 1770 by

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who later was crowned Charles X. It was then closed down and not reopened until 1851. At that time it became a café-concert called the Folies-Mayer, on the site of a former ''

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'' (tennis court). It was converted into the Folies-Concertantes in 1853, and reopened as the Folies-Nouvelles on 21 October 1854.Lecomte 1905
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Under the direction of the operetta composer

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from 1854 to 1856, it became a theatre for one-act ''spectacles-concerts'' with premieres of Hervé's ''La Perle de l'Alsace'' (1854), ''Un Compositeur toqué'' (1854), ''La Fine fleur de l'Andalousie'' (1854), ''Agamemnon, ou Le Chameau à deux bosses'' (1856), and ''Vadé au cabaret'' (1856). Several of

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's works received their first performance at the Théâtre des Folies-Nouvelles, including ''Jean le Sot'' (1856), ''Une Devinette'' (1856), ''Trois Dragons'' (1857), ''L'Ile de Calypso'' (1857), ''Peau d'âne'' (1858), ''Ignace le retors'' (1858) One of

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's first works, the ''anthropophagie musicale'' ''Oyayaye, ou La Reine des îles'' was also performed there (1855), and two

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s, Delibes's ''Deux sous de charbon'' (1856), and Lecocq's ''Huis-Clos'' (1859). The mime

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also regularly performed there between 1853 and 1859. The Folies-Nouvelles closed on 1 September 1859. It reopened with the name Théâtre Déjazet on 27 September 1859 under the direction of the actress

Virginie Déjazet Pauline Virginie Déjazet (30 August 17981 December 1875) was a French actress, famous soubrette, and a well-known travesti performer. Life Déjazet was born in Paris in 1798, and made her first appearance on the stage at the age of five. I ...

. She managed it with her son Joseph Eugène Déjazet, until 1870. The theatre closed on 1 June 1870, becoming the Folies-Nouvelles again in 1871 and back to Théâtre Déjazet in 1872. It was known as the Troisième Théâtre Français from 1876 to 1880, when it reverted to Folies-Nouvelles for two months, before finally becoming the Théâtre Déjazet again on 17 September 1880.Lecomte 1905
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The director of the theatre is Jean Bouquin. From 2009 to 2011, the theatre hosted the weekly seminar of the psychoanalyst

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References

;Notes ;Sources * Lecomte, Louis-Henry: ''Histoire des théâtres 1402–1904. Notice préliminaire'' (Paris: Daragon, 1905)
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