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The Palais Garnier — The Paris opera house, built from 1861 to 1875 to Charles Garnier’s plans
Decided on by Napoleon III after Orsini’s attempt on the imperial couple outside the old opera house in the rue Le Peletier, the new theatre was put to competition in 1860 and won by a thirty-five-year-old architect who had yet to build anything of note. The works, opened in August 1861, took seven months merely to drain the water table, were interrupted by the war and the Commune — the unfinished hall served as a warehouse and a military prison — and the whole was inaugurated on 5 January 1875 by Mac-Mahon, before distinguished foreign guests. The façade alone had been unveiled in 1867, for the Universal Exhibition. (Editorial synthesis)
The Palais Garnier is located in Paris. (source: Base Mérimée)
Recorded author of the Palais Garnier: Charles Garnier.
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