Bataclan

The Bataclan is a theater of a capacity of: 1498 places in concert, located upright 50 boulevard Voltaire, in the XI {{E}} district, in Paris.

Built by the architect Charles Duval in 1864, Bataclan (in reference to Ba-Your-Clan , the operetta of Offenbach) was in the beginning large a Café-théâtre of Chinese architecture, with the coffee and the theater with the ground floor, and large a dance hall on the first floor. One represented there light comedies of Scribe, Bayard, Mélesville, or Dumersan, and one also gave concerts to it.
During years which follow, the room knows various fortunes, with the liking of the changes of owner, with a new vogue after 1910, thanks to a restoration of the room and programming devoted to the reviews assembled in particular by Jose de Bérys, (Maurice Chevalier is its first successes there). Grayed by this success, the troop of Bataclan is exported for great rounds in South America which financially prove to be catastrophic.
En 1932, the room is resold and transformed into cinema. The original building is partially destroyed in 1950 to conform to the new security standards in force. In 1969, the cinema closes its doors and the room finds its vocation of theater. Bataclan is characterized today by a very eclectic activity leaving room to the concerts, spectacles, theater workshop, and discotheque. Its frontage found into 2006 the original colors which it had lost since good a long time, even if its roof in Pagode does not exist any more.

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