Odéon

The Odéon is one of France's six "national theatres", located in the VIe arrondissement (sixth district), on the left bank of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg Garden in Paris. It was built between 1779 and 1782, in the garden of the former Hôtel de Condé, to a Neoclassical design by Charles De Wailly and Marie-Joseph Peyre in order to house the Comédie Française (which preferred to stay at the Théâtre-Français in the Palais Royal). The new theat... more

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