Théâtre Déjazet

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Ceiling painting in the main hall
Balconies in the main hall

The Théâtre Déjazet is a private theater on the Boulevard du crime called Boulevard du Temple in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. Over the years, the house has been run under changing names as Les Folies Mayer , Les Folies-Concertantes , Les Folies-Nouvelles , Troisième-Théâtre-Français and other names.

The predecessor

The then as d'Artois comte known Charles X was in 1786 by its architect François-Joseph Bélanger on the property at number 39, a building that has a billiard room and a hall for the Jeu de Paume home to build. After the end of the monarchy, the building got a wide variety of uses and gradually fell into disrepair.

The Les Folies Mayer

In 1852 the Mayer brothers, two chansoners, received permission to build a building for a music café on Rue de Temple on the previous building, which was called Les Folies Mayer . At best, the permit for performing companies allowed two-person pieces to be accompanied by a small orchestra.

Les Folies-Concertantes and Les Folies-Nouvelles

The then still unknown Hervé took over the establishment in 1854. Hervé then received permission to convert the establishment into a small theater. After the reopening, the theater was called Les Folies-Concertantes . Hervé puts together short pieces that often consisted of comical scenes with a song. The numbers of the pantomime Paul Legrand and the comedian Charles Delaquis, which came from the Théâtre des Funambules and Théâtre Petit Lazari , were also successful .

The journalist and theater critic Louis Huart , who was also editor-in-chief of Le Charivari , and Marie-Michel Altaroche , director of l'Odeon , became interested in the theater. So they took over the house in 1854, expanded it and renamed it Les Folies-Nouvelles . Hervé remained artistic director until 1857. Jacques Offenbach's debut with the world premiere of the one-act play Oyayaye, ou la reine des îsles , for which Jules Moinaux wrote the libretto , also falls under his responsibility .

The Théâtre Déjazet I

In 1859 the actress Virginie Déjazet bought the theater and named it Théâtre Déjazet after herself . She ran the theater together with her son. There were operettas, vaudevilles , comedies and revues . One of the first pieces by Victorien Sardou was performed here. A time of upheaval began in 1862. Baron Haussmanns had almost all the buildings on the street demolished as part of urban renewal. The Déjazet, however, stopped and was given number 41.

On the Assumption of Mary in 1869 even Napoleon III lived. a performance. The tickets were free for him. The Franco-German War began just 1 year later . But at first it had no effect. But the theater had to be stopped briefly in 1871 when militias of the Paris Commune erected barricades on the boullevard du Temple and occupied the theater.

Troisième-Théâtre-Français

A change in leadership in 1876 brought about another renaming. The theater was now called Troisième-Théâtre-Français . But it wasn't just the name that changed. The new director, Hilarion Ballande , had the theater thoroughly rebuilt. The stage itself was not only enlarged, but also made more splendid and the ceiling of the hall was removed and raised by two meters. The hall was described in a review as one of the finest in Paris and had 1042 seats. A lot has also changed in the program. In the old Déjazet hardly any first-class pieces were given. Often a production was played to death for up to nine months. The new program consisted mainly of dramas and comedies. Many pieces by young authors were performed, such as Paul Delair , Ernest de Calledon's adaptations of Voltaire's comedies , but also well-known greats such as Ernest Legouvé .

The Théâtre Déjazet II

After Ballande left the theater in 1880, the old name Déjazet was taken up again by his successor. Leon Gandillot's first work les femmes collantes celebrated an overwhelming success in 1886. Leon Gandillot was often played in the years that followed. But not only the latest pieces were staged. In the playing season 1896-1897, for example, Les locataires de M. Blondeau by Henri Chivot or Un Lycée de jeunes filles by Louis Gregh and Alexandre Bisson were added to the program.

That didn't change in the new century either. 1901, among others, was Le Plus Heureux des trois of Eugène Labiche given. Before and during the First World War, comedies and revues as well as military and patriotic plays by André Mouëzy-Éon were performed. Also in the 1920s and 1930s current pieces were played, for example pieces by Raoul Praxy , Jacques Ibert and Philippe Chabaneix , as well as Jean Guitton .

In 1937, the well-known theater critic Lucien Dubech gave a swan song, in which the Déjazet , next to the Théâtre du Palais-Royal , did not get off well. The actors are not all so bad and a good tradition is maintained. But it was like a plucked wing that no longer flaps.

movie theater

In fact, the theater ended in 1939 and the hall was converted into a cinema. To do this, the balconies were closed and a screen was installed. The cinema was closed when the German occupation began in 1940 and did not reopen until after the war. If the house was still called Déjazet , it was changed to Le France in 1964 . In 1977 the cinema changed hands and the hall, like the numerous adjoining rooms, was restored while it was still in operation. In the same year, however, the cinema was administratively closed and it was not until 1981 that the commission de sécurité allowed gaming again. But it was not until 1983 before life returned.

Til today

The reopening took place first under the name Déjazez Music-hall but later known as Cinema-Theater Déjazet . In addition to the cinema, as arthouse cinema, numerous concerts such as those by Steve Lacy , Vince Taylor or Téléphone took place.

In 1985 there was another change of operator. The jazz musician Jacky Joel-Julien and Hervé Trinquier , a classical musician, both members of the Fédération anarchiste , wanted to resurrect the déjazet . The name TLP-Déjazet was intended to hide the anarchist background from the administration. Officially it was the Theater, Lyrique and Poesy , but the real one was théâtre Libertaire de Paris (Anarchist Theater of Paris). The predominantly francophone program mainly served the genres of chanson and jazz and was entirely political. Today the theater operates again as Théâtre Déjazet .

literature

  • Jean-Claude Yon, Théâtres parisiens: Un patrimoine du XIXe siècle, Citadelles et Mazenod, Paris, 2013, ISBN 978-2-85088-568-6
  • Albert Vanloo: Sur le plateau: souvenirs d'un librettiste, Paris: Librairie Ollendorf, 1913, p. 65ff. digitized

Web links

Commons : Théâtre Déjazet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle , Paris 1872, p. 543, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on April 30, 2018
  2. ↑ Bulletin de la Société des gens de lettres , Paris 1872, p. 281, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on April 30, 2018
  3. ↑ Le Théâtre des Funambules, ses mimes, ses acteurs et ses pantomimes , Paris 1897, p. 381, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on April 30, 2018
  4. ↑ Biographie universelle des musiciens , Paris 1878, p. 468, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on April 30, 2018
  5. ↑ Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale , Paris, 1878 p. 468, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on April 30, 2018
  6. ^ IMSLP, Petrucci Music Library: Oyayaye, ou La reine des îles , accessed on May 17, 2018
  7. ↑ Paris illustré en 1870 et 1876. Guide de l'étranger et du Parisien , p. 608, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 19, 2018
  8. ↑ La petite guerre , p. 36, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 24, 2018
  9. ↑ Histoire de la guerre civile de 1871, p. 541, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 24, 2018
  10. ↑ Dictionnaire universel illustré, biographique et bibliographique, de la France contemporaine , 1883, p. 93, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 11, 2018
  11. ↑ 3e Théâtre français, son idée première, son but, son titre, sa raison d'être , pp. 1 to 4, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 11, 2018
  12. ↑ Le 3e Théâtre français; son idée première, son but, son titre, sa raison d'être, son utilité. , P. 8, to be found in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 12, 2018
  13. ↑ Les Fourchambault: Analyze de la pièce: Portraits et biographies de l'auteur , p. 87, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 12, 2018
  14. ↑ A Voltaire, à-propos en vers ... à l'occasion du centenaire / Ernest de Calonne , p. 7, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 12, 2018
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  16. ↑ Paris et ses merveilles , p. 251, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 19
  17. ↑ Dictionnaire national des contemporains , p. 398, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 24, 2018
  18. ↑ La Lanterne de Boquillon , 1889, p. 16, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 26, 2018
  19. ↑ L e Photo programs: revue artistique illustrée , to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 26, 2018
  20. ↑ Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique , 1901, p. 483, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 26, 2018
  21. ↑ Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique , 1916, p. 157, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 26, 2018
  22. ↑ Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique , 1909, p. 417, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 26, 2018
  23. ↑ La Semaine parisienne: Paris-guide , 1922, p. 4, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 27, 2018
  24. ↑ Le Ménestrel: journal de musique , 1932, p. II, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 27, 2018
  25. ↑ Ce soir: grand quotidien d'information indépendant , 1937, p. 6, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 27, 2018
  26. ↑ L'Action française: organe du nationalisme intégral , April 3, 1937, p. 5, to be read in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on July 27, 2018
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '58.4 "  N , 2 ° 21' 52.2"  E