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Théâtre de la foire Saint-Laurent

Courtesy of Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris | Public Domain

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1786

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http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/node/738432

Description

Montage ancien. Feuille imprimée ancienne contrecollée au verso.

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Public Domain

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Courtesy of Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris

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Gare de l'Est (ex Theatre de la foire Saint-Laurent, Paris, France

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Buildings & Architecture

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The Saint Laurent fair was first established in 1183 in central Paris at Les Champeaux. After a century and a half, it moved north of Paris to a site near the fair's new sponsor, the leper colony of Saint-Lazare. In 1661 it moved to a nearby enclosure on the north side of the Rue de Saint Laurent, across from and a bit west of the Church of Saint-Laurent. The new location was just east of the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, across from the Abbaye des frères de Saint-Lazare. The Abbaye was later to become the Prison Saint-Lazare, and finally the Hôpital Saint-Lazare. Although the fairground was demolished in the early 19th century, its former site is located directly southwest of the entrance to today's Gare de l'Est. A number of celebrated opéras comiques by François-André Danican Philidor were first performed at the fair. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_de_la_foire)

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