Description
Montage commun aux numéros D.8021(1361) à (1365).
Image Licence
Public Domain
Image Credit
Courtesy of Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris
Location
Rue de Fleurus (ex Théâtre du Luxembourg or Bobino), Paris, France
Country
France
Medium
Watercolour
Tags
Category
Buildings & Architecture
TWW Comment
The beginnings of the Luxembourg theater date back to the 1810s, to a troupe of acrobats who performed outdoors, at the gate of the Luxembourg garden overlooking the rue de Fleurus. This troop was directed by the paradist entertainer Bobino (Sain, or Saix of his real name), competitor of the Bobèche and Galimafré of the boulevard du Temple. Some authors have thought that the theater had been demolished for the extension of rue Bonaparte (decree of 14 August 1866, extension called rue du Luxembourg, then rue Guynemer). This is not the case. The owner of the land, who was then none other than the Church, which did not fail to arouse the irony of certain chroniclers, did not want to invest in the room and left the entire burden of the work to his tenant, Auguste Gaspari. Around 1865, the religious institution decided that it was time to get rid of this unusual real estate heritage, which only brought in insufficient rental income given the gentrifying neighborhood. It thus wishes to recover the building for other purposes, in particular the construction of a new Catholic Circle. Having informed Gaspari that their days on rue de Fleurus were numbered, the Luxembourg troop moved in September 1866 to a newly built theater, the Menus-Plaisirs. http://vergue.com/post/677/Theatre-du-Luxembourg
