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The Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin c.1790. It was first built very rapidly in 1781 under the direction of Nicolas Lenoir [ fr] (1726–1810) to house the Paris Opéra, whose previous home, the second Salle du Palais-Royal, had burned down on 8 June 1781. The new theatre had a capacity of about 2,000 spectators and included a parterre with ...
The Porte Saint-Martin was designed by architect Pierre Bullet (a student of François Blondel, architect of the nearby Porte Saint-Denis) at the order of Louis XIV in honor of his victories on the Rhine and in Franche-Comté. Built in 1674, it replaced a medieval gate in the city walls built by Charles V. It was restored in 1988. Description
The Théâtre du Palais-Royal (or Grande Salle du Palais-Royal) on the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris was a theatre in the east wing of the Palais-Royal, which opened on 14 January 1641 with a performance of Jean Desmarets ' tragicomedy Mirame. The theatre was used by the troupe of Molière from 1660 to 1673 and as an opera house by the Académie ...
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Merian map of Paris. The Merian map of Paris (French: plan de Merian) was created in 1615 by Matthäus Merian, the map presents a "bird's eye view" looking east with a scale of about 1 to 7,000. It originally consisted of two engraved plates (50 x 37 cm each) with the left and right halves of the map and was printed with 2 columns of portraits ...
The Porte Saint-Denis was the first of four triumphal arches to be built in Paris. The three others are the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (1806-1808), Porte Saint-Martin (1674), and Arc de Triomphe (1836). Description. The Porte Saint-Denis is a triumphal arch inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome. The monument is 24.65 m (80.9 ft) high, 25 m ...
Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, the 37th quartier, has 21,624 people in an area of 92.7 hectares; Porte-Saint-Denis, the 38th quartier, has 15,066 people in an area of 47.2 hectares; Porte-Saint-Martin, the 39th quartier, has 23,125 people in an area of 60.9 hectares; Hôpital-Saint-Louis, the 40th quartier, has 29,870 people in an area of 88.4 hectares
Bonaparte Visits the Plague Stricken in Jaffa ( French: Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa) is an oil-on-canvas painting commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte and painted in 1804 by Antoine-Jean Gros, portraying an event during the French invasion of Egypt. [1] The scene shows Napoleon during a striking scene which is supposed to have ...