The Place de l'Opéra is a square in the 9th arrondissement of

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, at the junction of the

Boulevard des Italiens The boulevard des Italiens is a boulevard in Paris. It is one of the 'Grands Boulevards' in Paris, a chain of boulevards built through the former course of the Wall of Charles V and the Louis XIII Wall, which were destroyed by the orders of Louis ...

Boulevard des Capucines The Boulevard des Capucines is a boulevard in Paris. It is one of the 'Grands Boulevards' in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an ...

, Avenue de l'Opéra, , , Rue de la Paix and . It was built at the same time as the Opéra Garnier (designed by Charles Garnier), which is sited on it and after which it is named. Both structures were part of the Haussmannian redesign of Paris under Napoleon III of France.

2, place de l’Opéra

Donon, Pierre-Armand (Comic-Finance, 1873-10-23)

The building at No. 2, on the corner of rue du Quatre-Septembre, was built between 1868 and 1873 on a design by architect

Henri Blondel Jean Henry Blondel (20 January 1821 – 14 September 1897) was a prolific French architect. Among his works were the Passage du Bourg l'Abbé entrance on the Rue Palestro (1863), the La Belle Jardinière store on Rue du Pont-Neuf (1866-7), ...

. It was initially the head office of (SDCC), and following the latter's liquidation in 1892 became the principal Parisian branch of

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(CNEP), itself recently recovered from a major restructuring. Between 1940 and 1944, the building was the location of the or office of the military commander of the city of Paris. It is now used by the CNEP's successor bank

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